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if Dickens lasted out the year. All this running about and travelling up and down the country didn’t mean death came less quick. A few days after Dickens left Hull for the last time, for he is to die of a stroke the following year, a small earthquake is felt in the town. Nothing spectacular – plates rattle on dressers, boats are tossed at sea, people drown – the usual story. Tremors are felt near the river, and the letter falls from the vicar’s book, is blown out into the street, and scooped up by a trader as a bookmark. And so the letter begins its journey. Image: Malcolm Watson
Kath McKay After Abigail Finds the Letter I look over Grand-dad’s shoulder and read: Complete works of Charles Dickens Great storeys such as Great expectations, Dambey and son, the old Curiosity shop Green faux leather bound, embosed spine. Listed as used But Never Read or Opened ‘Look at that,’ says grand-dad. ‘A travesty.’ ‘What’s a travesty?’ I ask him, but he shuts the lap-top and says it’s terrible that some people never read. ‘We read, grand-dad, don’t we?’ ‘Yes, love.’ He makes me Marmite on toast and we get our books out. Next time I go to his flat there is a new bookshelf taking up the whole of one wall in the living room. ‘Now I can dip into them whenever I want to.’ He smiles. My grand-dad taught my mum to read, and she taught me. She says there’s nothing better than lying on the sofa with your shoes off and a good book. My grand-dad says you can learn so much from Dickens, that Dickens could see into people’s souls. My favourite is Oliver Twist, my mum likes Great Expectations, and Grand-dad loves Nicholas Nickleby. He’s made me a bookshelf, and he buys me a book on birthdays and Christmas. When he was young he was in a Readers’ Society and he’d get books through the post, and he’s got all these old Penguins, in dark blue and orange and pink. Says he believes in education and that books open doors. He used to get books from the local library, but then it closed. Now sometimes he can’t make it to the big one in town. It was me who found the letter, tucked at the back of Great Expectations. 89
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