‘First thing we’ll do,’ he’d said, ‘is find a nice little place somewhere out of London, with plenty of fresh air for the kids when they come.’ He was also anticipating another promotion and rise and Ellie expecting their first baby.
It was as it should be. In time the money from her paintings would dwindle. With no more forthcoming, Elizabeth Jay’s work would probably be forgotten, a flash in the pan, with new movements and interpretations, new artists pouring on to the scene all the time.
‘I don’t think I ever want to pick up another paintbrush,’ Ellie told her husband. ‘The need has gone right out of me,’ she added as she patted her rapidly swelling stomach.
It was true. That strange need that had made her paint the way she had wasn’t there any more, she told herself, and she laughed as she felt the baby kick.
About the Author
Maggie was born in the East End of London but at the age of six she moved to Essex, where she has lived ever since. After the death of her first husband, when she was only twenty-six, she went to work as a legal secretary until she remarried in 1968. She has a son and two daughters, all married; her second husband died in 1984. She has been writing short stories since the early 1970s.
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First published in Great Britain and the USA in 2007 by Severn House Publishers LTD
This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Canelo
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Originally published as To Cast a Stone by Elizabeth Lord
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