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The people at Number 10 were the main topic of discussion that summer. After all - and voices dropped to a mysterious whisper - they came from outside. When the removal lorry came, it was watched from behind the curtains in windows all down the street. The consensus was that there were three young men, but no one could agree what they looked like or what their relation to each other was.
They were of particular interest to the girls. Newcomers - particularly good-looking, apparently single ones (and almost all the rumours agreed there) - were far more interesting than the lanky local youths who they could remember stuffing mud down their backs ten years ago. Tash from Number 15 reckoned they were dating each other, but she was engaged, so it was generally written off as sour grapes.
Anna couldn't wait to talk to them, to ask the questions that no one in town could answer. Little Highbridge wasn't a place you lived for a few years. You were born there, you grew up there, married, grew old and died there. She couldn't remember anyone ever moving there before.
There was just one problem.
They never left the house. During the summer holidays, groups of teenagers took to hanging out in the street and in friends' front gardens (it wasn't as if there were many other places to go) but as August dragged on, there wasn't a single sign of movement and they were forced back to school with no result.
They were of particular interest to the girls. Newcomers - particularly good-looking, apparently single ones (and almost all the rumours agreed there) - were far more interesting than the lanky local youths who they could remember stuffing mud down their backs ten years ago. Tash from Number 15 reckoned they were dating each other, but she was engaged, so it was generally written off as sour grapes.
Anna couldn't wait to talk to them, to ask the questions that no one in town could answer. Little Highbridge wasn't a place you lived for a few years. You were born there, you grew up there, married, grew old and died there. She couldn't remember anyone ever moving there before.
There was just one problem.
They never left the house. During the summer holidays, groups of teenagers took to hanging out in the street and in friends' front gardens (it wasn't as if there were many other places to go) but as August dragged on, there wasn't a single sign of movement and they were forced back to school with no result.