![]() ![]() With Richard’s car broken, Flora walks the rest of the way home. Flora skids to a stop, shocked by the falling fish and finds she cannot restart Richard’s car again. In her first creative writing class, Gil, Ingrid’s professor, tells a fictional story about the paper daffodil and asks his students to share an equally private story.Īs Flora returns to Spanish Green, Gil’s home town, she drives through a shower of flying mackerel. They leave notes with each other’s bicycles. ![]() In her first letter, Ingrid describes how she and Gil met in university. The letters are written over the course of June 1992, the month before she disappears. Interspersed throughout the novel are Ingrid’s letters to Gil about their marriage. Flora has spent the last few days sleeping with Richard, a bookshop assistant, who loans Flora his car upon hearing about her father. Nan, Gil’s eldest daughter telephones Flora, Gil’s youngest daughter, to inform her of their father’s accident. He follows her to the promenade above the beach but slips and falls. ![]() Gil, an elderly author, thinks he sees his long-lost wife, Ingrid, while browsing the bookshop in Hadleigh one stormy day. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Fuller, Claire. ![]()
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