Sheltering Rain
“H, but the birth of her grandchild had been one, for sure. She said this many times, to many people, but it didn’t stop her eyes filling with grateful tears every time she said it, and the fact that she often said it to the same people was not minded by anyone who knew her. Little Roisin Connolly was good news, and news that good could happily bear the burden of repetition.
Patrick had returned to Annie the night of the birth, deeply shocked but overjoyed at the arrival of the new baby, overwhelmed with relief at finally having an explanation of his wife’s increasingly strange behavior over the past months. Annie, who had never come to terms with her daughter’s death, had become temporarily unbalanced by the shock of her new pregnancy, the doctors said, and had coped only by ignoring it, and distancing herself from those around her. It was not an uncommon response, apparently. Despite this, Mrs. H had seemed rather embarrassed not to have realized that her own daughter had been pregna...nt, and had blamed herself for the trauma of Roisin’s birth, but Mack and Thom and everyone else told her not to be so daft—and Annie herself later pointed out that if she had been able to keep it from her own husband, what little chance did her mother have of guessing?MoreLess
Patrick had returned to Annie the night of the birth, deeply shocked but overjoyed at the arrival of the new baby, overwhelmed with relief at finally having an explanation of his wife’s increasingly strange behavior over the past months. Annie, who had never come to terms with her daughter’s death, had become temporarily unbalanced by the shock of her new pregnancy, the doctors said, and had coped only by ignoring it, and distancing herself from those around her. It was not an uncommon response, apparently. Despite this, Mrs. H had seemed rather embarrassed not to have realized that her own daughter had been pregna...nt, and had blamed herself for the trauma of Roisin’s birth, but Mack and Thom and everyone else told her not to be so daft—and Annie herself later pointed out that if she had been able to keep it from her own husband, what little chance did her mother have of guessing?MoreLess
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