Charlie tried to avoid going to the Jowett house if there was any possibility that Damien would be there,
She wasn’t very anxious to be there when Joyce was around either, she had made it abundantly clear that Charlie was not welcome.
Quite why Charlie continued going back to Josie’s house, she could never have explained. She told herself it was because she wanted to know if there was any news about Josie, but she could easily have phoned or texted. Or was it simply because she liked the house so much, such a contrast to her own shabby home.
Whatever the reason, every month or six weeks Charlie would make that half mile walk from the council flat on the Upper Storrs Estate and up the hill onto Fenstall Road and the Jowett house.
That Saturday, the snow had almost gone, there was just
