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The People at Number 9
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The People at Number 9
Felicity Everett
Envy. Longing. Betrayal.Have you met the new neighbors?Sara and Neil have new neighbors in their street. Glamorous and chaotic, Gavin and Louise make Sara’s life seem dull. As the two couples become friends, sharing suppers, red wine and childcare, it seems a perfect couples-match. But the more Sara sees of Gav and Lou, the more she longs to change her own life. But those changes will come at a price.
FELICITY EVERETT grew up in Manchester and attended Sussex University. After an early career in children’s publishing and freelance writing, which produced more than twenty-five works of children’s fiction and non-fiction, Felicity’s debut novel The Story of Us was published in 2011. She has just returned from four years in Australia and lives in Gloucestershire.
But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Contents
Cover (#ud0f66641-fa2e-53bf-b66b-afa4459f51ba)
About the Author (#ulink_24399285-032d-5b22-b5e7-749398534106)
Title Page (#u2ce533cb-2761-5535-95ca-29d1cf088893)
Chapter 1 (#ulink_eb4ee123-27a5-5677-9406-6e603ac92381)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_7fc6e715-f4bd-5087-afb9-99613a3ee45b)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_9eadf399-6569-5d77-898a-910cba419758)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_f69ad265-d160-5fd0-bd15-9cfcfdc55cb1)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_adab2882-41d1-5f62-b2d8-078a0693fc1b)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_c7451498-f8b3-5fdf-a0d8-6e902e705638)
Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Why I wrote The People at Number 9 (#litres_trial_promo)
Reading group questions: (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
1 (#ulink_537c29d6-a1e8-5aa1-a23c-75a27795afe3)
Sara’s gaze drifted toward the window. It was dark outside now, and she could see her own reflection superimposed like a hologram on the house across the road. Their curtains were half-closed but the cold blue flicker of the TV could just be seen. She imagined Gavin lounging in the Eames chair with a glass of red, Lou lolling barefoot on the sofa. They might be watching an art-house movie together – or perhaps just slumming it with Saturday night telly. It was all too easy to conjure – the flea-bitten hearth-rug, the aroma of Pinot Noir mingled with woodsmoke. Even after everything that had happened, the scene still had its allure.
From their vantage point, Carol’s place would be a goldfish bowl – blinds open, lights blazing, a room full of people and more arriving. Sara hoped they had noticed. She hoped their exclusion would hurt, but she doubted it. Her focus shifted, once again, to her own face, a ghostly smudge in the sheen of the windowpane.
***
Eighteen months earlier
The first time Sara saw their car, she thought it had been dumped, it looked so incongruous among all the people carriers and Volkswagens. Its rear wheel was perched on the kerb, while its front ones were skewed at an alarming angle. It was a red and grey vintage Humber with a missing hubcap, a slew of rubbish in the passenger footwell and a baby seat in the back. Over the next few days, however, she spotted the car a number of times; not always so erratically parked, but usually within a stone’s throw of her house.
She was standing outside Carol’s, debriefing after the school run, when she noticed her friend’s concentration drift.
“Check out our new neighbour,” Carol murmured, nodding toward the other side of the street.
Felicity Everett
Envy. Longing. Betrayal.Have you met the new neighbors?Sara and Neil have new neighbors in their street. Glamorous and chaotic, Gavin and Louise make Sara’s life seem dull. As the two couples become friends, sharing suppers, red wine and childcare, it seems a perfect couples-match. But the more Sara sees of Gav and Lou, the more she longs to change her own life. But those changes will come at a price.
FELICITY EVERETT grew up in Manchester and attended Sussex University. After an early career in children’s publishing and freelance writing, which produced more than twenty-five works of children’s fiction and non-fiction, Felicity’s debut novel The Story of Us was published in 2011. She has just returned from four years in Australia and lives in Gloucestershire.
But now I am no longer I,
nor is my house any longer my house.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Contents
Cover (#ud0f66641-fa2e-53bf-b66b-afa4459f51ba)
About the Author (#ulink_24399285-032d-5b22-b5e7-749398534106)
Title Page (#u2ce533cb-2761-5535-95ca-29d1cf088893)
Chapter 1 (#ulink_eb4ee123-27a5-5677-9406-6e603ac92381)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_7fc6e715-f4bd-5087-afb9-99613a3ee45b)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_9eadf399-6569-5d77-898a-910cba419758)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_f69ad265-d160-5fd0-bd15-9cfcfdc55cb1)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_adab2882-41d1-5f62-b2d8-078a0693fc1b)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_c7451498-f8b3-5fdf-a0d8-6e902e705638)
Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Why I wrote The People at Number 9 (#litres_trial_promo)
Reading group questions: (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
1 (#ulink_537c29d6-a1e8-5aa1-a23c-75a27795afe3)
Sara’s gaze drifted toward the window. It was dark outside now, and she could see her own reflection superimposed like a hologram on the house across the road. Their curtains were half-closed but the cold blue flicker of the TV could just be seen. She imagined Gavin lounging in the Eames chair with a glass of red, Lou lolling barefoot on the sofa. They might be watching an art-house movie together – or perhaps just slumming it with Saturday night telly. It was all too easy to conjure – the flea-bitten hearth-rug, the aroma of Pinot Noir mingled with woodsmoke. Even after everything that had happened, the scene still had its allure.
From their vantage point, Carol’s place would be a goldfish bowl – blinds open, lights blazing, a room full of people and more arriving. Sara hoped they had noticed. She hoped their exclusion would hurt, but she doubted it. Her focus shifted, once again, to her own face, a ghostly smudge in the sheen of the windowpane.
***
Eighteen months earlier
The first time Sara saw their car, she thought it had been dumped, it looked so incongruous among all the people carriers and Volkswagens. Its rear wheel was perched on the kerb, while its front ones were skewed at an alarming angle. It was a red and grey vintage Humber with a missing hubcap, a slew of rubbish in the passenger footwell and a baby seat in the back. Over the next few days, however, she spotted the car a number of times; not always so erratically parked, but usually within a stone’s throw of her house.
She was standing outside Carol’s, debriefing after the school run, when she noticed her friend’s concentration drift.
“Check out our new neighbour,” Carol murmured, nodding toward the other side of the street.
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Мне книга очень понравилось, невероятные приключения, очень позитивная и добрая но при этом есть и отрицательные герои . Спасибо очень жду продолжения...
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