Page 209 of The Silent Appeal

What about Fran?

6:10 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

Gone off the boil. Started out brilliant. Now her words are ropey, characterization so-so, energy low. Preoccupied.

6:10 p.m. Carol wrote:

I bet.

6:12 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

But she swapped flats with the Stibson couple and Georgia (weird threesome IYAM) after the accident. Probably not sleeping so well.

6:13 p.m. Carol wrote:

IYAM?

6:13 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

If you ask me.

6:16 p.m. Carol wrote:

So, she’s living in a bedsit on the estate instead of her own place. The estate that’s a stone’s throw from Kevin’s office.

6:17 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

So?

6:18 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

Are you implying Kevin is having an affair with Fran?

6:18 p.m. Carol wrote:

NICKY-ROSE! You knew and didn’t even tell your sister!

6:19 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

NO! Mum, you’re barking up the wrong tree FFS.

6:19 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

For fuck’s sake.

6:22 p.m. Carol wrote:

How can you be so sure? Do you know why he might have been meeting Fran in secret in Lockley Bois Park?

6:25 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote:

No, I don’t. OMG it’s play week FFS. It’s YOUR play week at Mendhams too!

6:30 p.m. Carol wrote:

Exactly, it’s play week for all of us and that’s the only reason I’m not marching in there and having it out with him (and her if I could get my hands on her, the pious little snake).

6:34 p.m. Nicky-Rose wrote: