Harvest – Celia Brayfield (1)

From the more passive Louisa would request the committed relationship; incapable of actual refusal, they would mumble, misunderstand or disappear, leaving her furiously condemning another dickhead who had wasted valuable months of her life. When Jane considered leaving Michael, as she did much more often than she admitted to anyone, the vision of a future full of Antonys deterred her.

‘Was this room always the kitchen?’ Louisa was checking out the batterie de cuisine displayed on hooks and shelves, keeping an eye on the poaching liquor in the fish kettle as it approached simmering point. She and Jane were in purist agreement about salmon. The ideal method was to take the pot off the stove as the liquid came to boiling point and leave the fish to cook slowly in the residual heat, then cool overnight before serving in all its moist, pink, meaty splendour.

‘Oh yes. All fitted out with one of those huge electric stainless steel ranges the French always have. The builders thought I was mad when I threw it out and put this old thing in.’ Jane had brought from England a castiron stove with three ovens and blue-and-white tiles, originally intended to burn coal and now skilfully adapted for bottled gas. ‘The building inspector was all ready to condemn it, but Michael had a drink with him and won him over somehow.

Shall we shell the peas?’ ‘So Michael is some use around the house.’ ‘I couldn’t possibly live like this on my own money, Louisa.’ ‘Yes you could, you earn enough now, surely?’ ‘Well …’ Jane paused in the act of clearing bowls from the long oak table to make space for the work ahead. ‘I don’t know. Perhaps – the television pays telephone numbers. Our accountant just sorts us out, Michael sees him every now and then.

I can’t do figures, my mind goes blank.’

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Thursday 2. Friday 3. Saturday 4. Saturday Afternoon 5. Sunday: The Beginning 6. Sunday Continued 7. Clearing Away 8. Harvest Supper OceanofPDF.com Celia Brayfield HARVEST OceanofPDF.com Celia Brayfield Celia Brayfield is a novelist and cultural commentator. She is the author of nine novels. The latest, Wild Weekend explores the tensions in a Suffolk village in homage to Oliver Goldmsith’s She Stoops to Conquer. To explore suburban living, she created the community of Westwick and explored mid- life manners in Mr Fabulous And Friends, and the environmental implications of urbanisation in Getting Home.

She has often juxtaposed historical and contemporary settings, notably eighteenth century Spain in Sunset, pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in White Ice and Malaysia in the time of World War II in Pearls. Four of her novels have been optioned by major US, UK or French producers. Her non-fiction titles include two standard works on the art of writing: Arts Reviews (Kamera Books, 2008) and Bestseller (Fourth Estate, 1996.) Her most recent is Deep France (Pan, 2004) a journal of a year she spent writing in south-west France.

She has served on the management committee of The Society of Authors and judged national literary awards including the Betty Trask Award and the Macmillan Silver PEN Prize. A former media columnist, she contributes to The Times, BBC Radio 4 and other national and international media.

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