Homecoming by Kate Morton EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Kate Morton
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Historical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 13, 2023
London
December 7, 2018
Whenever Jess felt angry or sad or even just inexplicably unsettled, she paid
a visit to the Charles Dickens Museum on Doughty Street. There was
something enormously comforting about sitting down to a pot of English
breakfast tea after a wander through the museum’s rooms. Sometimes she
listened to the audio guide, even though she’d heard it enough times to have
memorized the information, because she liked the narrator’s voice.
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She had discovered the museum during her first months in London. She’d
been twenty-one, living in the attic of her school friend’s mother’s aunt,
working part-time in a run-down pub near King’s Cross station. One day,
having arrived too early for her shift, she’d decided to take a roam around the
area. It was her favorite thing to do, to walk and to look, to pinch herself in
wonder at being here, in this place of cobblestones, pint glasses, and mews
houses, of poets and painters and playwrights, of the great skulking, ageless
River Thames.
In the spirit of exploration and discovery, she’d granted herself the
freedom to turn in either direction at random when she reached the end of a
road, which was how she happened to be walking along Doughty Street, past
a row of neat brick houses, when she noticed a sandwich board on the
pavement outside number forty-eight, announcing it as the Charles Dickens
Museum. A thousand childhood hours spent lying in her grandmother’s
garden in Sydney, book in hand, had come back in an instant, and she’d
hurried up the concrete stairs and pushed open the shiny black door.
Time
had dissolved; the novelty of being in England, of finding that the names and
places she’d come across in novels were real, was still fresh, and Jess had
been utterly awed to think that Dickens himself had once walked through
these halls, eaten at this table, stored his wine in the cellar downstairs.
She’d arrived late for work that day and earned herself a warning, followed
shortly by a second, which had led in turn to her dismissal. In a stroke of
good fortune, unemployment had begot opportunity, and the next job vacancy
she answered had been for a small travel company in Victoria that required
her to write, among other things, copy for their newsletter. And so, in an
instance of rare, perfect synchronicity, she had always felt that she had
Dickens to thank for giving her a professional start as a journalist.
Her preferred room at the museum changed frequently, depending on her
mood and the circumstances of her life.
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