The Move

The Move

Author: JP Delaney Listening Length: 7h 54m
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New beginnings can be deadly . . . Kate and Matt Crowther are finally moving out of London, in search of a better life for their young family. Trade Cottage seems to be the house of their dreams – and they immediately hit it off with the sellers, Rosemary and Paul Finch, who brought up their own family there. When Kat...

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FORTY-ONE

Matt was right: she did feel better in the morning, helped by the fact that the house’s silence was broken by the army of tradesmen who arrived shortly before eight.

Three small mechanical diggers trundled down the garden to begin excavating the drainage field; another started on the groundworks for the outbuilding conversions; Steve and his two sidekicks resumed work on the bathroom, while the roofers started to erect scaffolding at the front of the house, the chinking of their metal poles somehow redolent of the sound of an army hammering its weapons.

Sitting in the captain’s chair, watching men with huge spanners shimmy up and down the ladders outside the oriel window, she couldn’t help thinking of sailors manning a ship’s rigging, cutlasses at the ready.