His mood of euphoria, he soon discovered, was matched by Lizzie's. Local councillors, race relations officers, social workers, ladies from the WI, from as far afield as Southampton, Oxford and Stratford, had turned up and now surged forward to shake her hand. She'd never been wild about Charles. 'I can't stand living with him a moment longer.
Discovering in the middle she'd forgotten to get any saffron or squid, she dispatched Rupert to the village shop. Next moment, incredibly, it flooded through the room. Are you sure it was Ralphie?' 'Quite sure, the two-timing shit. Instead of returning to the library, he went round to the kitchen and found Taggie listening to pop music and trying to iron a great pile of Declan's shirts and read a recipe at the same time.
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