As I was pondering, I picked up the fallen page from the file and turned it over.
It was slightly yellowed around the edges, and smelled institutional: metallic, like filing cabinets,
and grubby, touched by the unwashed skin of multiple, anonymous hands. Banknotes have a similar odor, I’ve noticed.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK. NOTE OF CASE MEETING. March 15, 1999, 10 a.m.
Case Meeting: OLIPHANT, ELEANOR (07/12/1987). Present: Robert Brocklehurst (Deputy Head, Children and Families, Social Work Department);
Rebecca Scatcherd (Senior Case Worker, Social Work Department); Mr. and Mrs. Reed (foster carers).
The meeting took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reed, whose children, including Eleanor Oliphant, were at school at the time.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed had requested the meeting, which was outside the regular scheduled sessions, in order to discuss their growing concerns about Eleanor.
Mrs. Reed reported that Eleanor’s behavior had deteriorated since it was last raised at a case meeting some four months earlier.
Mr. Brocklehurst requested examples, and Mr. and Mrs. Reed cited the following:
Eleanor’s relationship with their other children had almost completely broken down, particularly with John (14), the eldest;
Eleanor was insolent and rude to Mrs. Reed on a daily basis.
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