The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sara Nisha Adams
- Language: English
- Genre: Asian American Literature
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September 2018
‘EXCUSE ME!’ A VOICE, pinched and painful, pierced through the music
flooding his headphones. ‘Mr Winston, isn’t it?’
He kept his eyes squeezed shut, trying to keep the calm of the morning
going. The air still held the warmth of summer, but the breeze was all
autumn. Winston was already missing the long, languorous days of August
and early September, even if his usual sunbathing plans had been ruined by
his charming new neighbour, who had turned every waking moment of this
summer into a headache.
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Since she’d moved into the house next door, which had been empty ever
since Winston had lived here, everything had been chaos.
The two neighbouring houses had an unusual feature: a shared back
garden. It had once been Winston’s silent, scrubby smoking spot – his place
for a moment of peace. But now it was their battleground.
For weeks, Winston and the Queen of Sheba (as his mother would call
her, though he gathered from the builders that she was called Bernice) had
been storming over to each other’s houses to complain about something or
other. First, it was because her builders began every working day at 8 a.m.,
sticking on an obnoxiously loud radio station, before drilling away, causing
Winston’s walls to vibrate ominously. They were friendly guys, and
Winston would always stop to have a chat with them when he walked past,
but when he learned that the Queen of Sheba had requested they work as
many Sundays as they could manage, Winston couldn’t bear it any more.
Sundays were the only day he had off work. Without that day to lounge
about and do nothing, he was a zombie all week long.
‘What am I supposed to do? Live in a building site for the rest of my
life?’ she’d said to him one day, when he’d hammered on her door to ask if
the builders could start at a more respectable time. ‘I honestly don’t care
what you do with your life,’ he’d muttered under his breath, ‘As long as
you don’t keep ruining mine!’
Just a few days ago, he’d had to pound his fists against the adjoining wall
between their terraced houses because when the builders weren’t making a
commotion, her young son was. Winston couldn’t fathom how one small
child could make so much noise, especially one who publicly appeared so
angelic and polite. The kid had taken to charging up and down the stairs.
But it sounded like a whole herd of rhinos. After six years living at Number
79, at the end of the terrace, with an empty house on the other side, Winston
was used to peace and tranquillity. Bernice was a shock to the system.
In order to block out the noise of her child, he’d begun to play his music
at a ridiculously loud volume (sometimes it was drum and bass, sometimes
old school R&B, sometimes Kate Bush – he had eclectic taste). Naturally,
the cacophony caused the Queen of Sheebz to come hammering on his door
in return.
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