Story Somebody Had Been in the Hall Before Six in the Morning
Part one of five. Priya arrives to put the flowers out and finds eighty name cards in the wrong order, and works out who has a key.
Mother-in-Law Stories
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Story The Key Is in a Drawer, and Sandra Comes on Tuesdays
Part five of five. What changed after the christening, what did not, and the two times Sandra stood on the step in the rain.
Story What She Said at the Tea Urn, and Why Wendy Was at Table One
Part four of five. The reason the neighbour had been moved to the top table was not the one Priya had spent all morning being angry about.
Story The Conversation at the Door, and the Hand That Went Into the Bag
Part three of five. Priya had nine versions of what she was going to say. She used none of them, and asked for something she had not planned to ask for.
Story It Took Him Forty Seconds to Understand, and She Thought About It for a Year
Part two of five. Dan arrives with the cake, and the gap between him seeing the room and understanding the room turns out to matter more than the cards did.