A CASE OF MISSING BOOKS Next morning, she felt better as the horror was over for the next twelve months. Except for her birthday, she usually stayed in the attic and avoided face-to-face conversation with her parents. She thought about her talk with Flora while frying sausages for herself in the kitchen. It was around eleven o’clock. Flora and Lucy were both off to work. Steve was busy watching the news and waving fists at the screen. “Flora,” she sighed. The nature of her relation with Flora was that she listened to her; whether she liked it or not, but somewhere unknowingly, she paid attention. She knew one thing that if she didn’t get a job, Flora would keep thinking she missed Harry which was not true at all. After her breakup with Harry, she experienced random mood swings which she

