The Reservoir Tapes

and then they were just

gone.

It could take days to shake the feeling off,

sometimes.

And this girl in the garden, under the apple tree, she looked

she looked like Laura.

Exactly like Laura.

Laura was Ginny and Jacek’s daughter. She was grown now. She’d be –

thirty-three.

And this girl was Laura

at that age

to a T.

Different clothes, of course.

But the shape of her, the way she carried herself.

It was

Laura.

Ginny remembered Laura carrying herself

like that.

The look had come into her overnight.

They’d seen the woman in the girl.

It had been sudden.

They’d seen her realising what kind of woman she would be, and

playing with the part. Dressing up

in different poses.

They’d seen her wishing herself

out of reach.

She’d wanted away.

That had been obvious.

Ginny could remember wanting away

from her own mother