TheCotswoldsCode

The Serial

All chapters

  1. 01

    An ordinary Wednesday in the shop, until a woman comes in for a book she has wanted for two years.

  2. 02

    Sunday lunch at a good pub. Three people at the next table, a fourth at the bar, and not one of them there by chance.

  3. 03

    Dinner at Glebe Court. Margot is brought inside something she cannot yet name, and a hand crosses hers at the salt.

  4. 04

    A letter arrives in a hand Margot has seen once before, sealed in green wax she cannot read. And an old friend calls at the shop, asking the question behind the question.

  5. 05

    Tea at Helena's, and the thing that has been all around Margot since the first afternoon is given a shape, and a sign. After Sunday she may choose, or not.

  6. 06

    Dinner at Glebe Court, and a door at the back of the house Margot has noticed once and never entered. What is asked of her there, she is asked only once.

The events of the next chapter, are still unfolding