Chapter 5
Kim planned to clean the back verandah when she got home, or maybe clear out the kitchen cupboards, but she didn’t have the heart for it. Picking through the leftovers of her failed future was hardly an enticing prospect. The kids got stuck into building a cubby with scrap timber. Jake seemed to have forgotten all about his iPad. She watched them for a while then wandered back inside. Perhaps packing up the hall bookcase would be easier. She found cardboard boxes in the narrow spare room Connor had built by enclosing a section of verandah.
The shelves were stocked with an odd assortment of things, mainly collected from the second-hand shop in Wingham, with rainy days in mind. Old Grass Roots and Earth Garden magazines. Picture books. Well-thumbed James Patterson thrillers. She
