As soon as Ash came home, she told him she wanted to see an old friend from Bedford and wouldn’t be back for a few hours.
No Longer Here
As soon as Nora entered Oak Leaf Residential Care Home, and before she’d even reached the reception,
she saw a frail elderly man wearing glasses whom she recognised.
He was having a slightly heated conversation with a nurse who looked exasperated. Like a sigh turned into a human.
“I really would like to go in the garden,” the old man said. “I’m sorry, but the garden is being used today.”
“I just want to sit on the bench. And read the newspaper.”
“Maybe if you’d signed up for the gardening activity session—”
“I don’t want a gardening session. I want to call Dhavak. This was all a mistake.”
Nora had heard her old neighbour talk about his son Dhavak before, when she had dropped off his medication.
Apparently his son had been pushing for him to go to a care home, but Mr Banerjee had insisted on holding on to his house.
“Is there no way I can just—” He noticed, at this point, that he was being stared at.
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