Because you liked it. But also because you wanted to impress your older brother.
“I never told you all this.” A wry smile. “Don’t worry. I read the book.”
“Right. Course. Yeah. Got you.” “You might need to stop worrying about other people’s approval, Nora,”
Mrs Elm said in a whisper, for added power and intimacy. “You don’t need a permission slip to be your—” “Yes. I get it.”
And she did get it. Every life she had tried so far since entering the library had really been someone else’s dream.
The married life in the pub had been Dan’s dream. The trip to Australia had been Izzy’s dream,
and her regret about not going had been a guilt for her best friend more than a sorrow for herself.
The dream of her becoming a swimming champion belonged to her father.
And okay, so it was true that she had been interested in the Arctic and being a glaciologist when she was younger,
but that had been steered quite significantly by her chats with Mrs Elm herself, back in the school library.
And The Labyrinths, well, that had always been her brother’s dream.
Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living.
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