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Hammersmith

During half term, while Molly was off school and on a Tuesday when Ash

wasn’t in the hospital, they popped on the train to London to see Nora’s
brother and Ewan in their flat in Hammersmith.
Joe looked well, and his husband looked the same as he had when Nora
had seen him on her brother’s phone in her Olympic life. Joe and Ewan met
at a cross-training class at their local g ym. Joe was, in this life, working as a

sound engineer, while Ewan – Dr Ewan Langford, to be precise – was a
consultant radiologist for the Royal Marsden Hospital, so he and Ash had a
lot of hospital-related stuff to moan about together.

Joe and Ewan were lovely with Molly, asking her det ailed questions about
what Panda was up to. And Joe cooked them all a great garlicky pasta-and-
broccoli meal.
‘It’s Puglian, apparently,’ he told Nora. ‘Getting a bit of our heritage in
there.’

Nora thought of her Italian grandfather and wondered what he had felt
like when he realised the London Brick Company was actually based in
Bedford. Had he been truly disappointed? Or had he, actually, just decided

to make the most of it? ere was probably a version of their grandfather
who went to London and on his first day got run over by a double-decker
bus at Piccadilly Circus.
Joe and Ewan had a full wine rack in the kitchen and Nora noticed that
one of the bottles was a Californian Syrah from the Buena Vista vineyard.

Nora felt her skin prickle as she saw the two printed signatures at the bottom
– Alicia and Eduardo Martìnez. She smiled, sensing Eduardo was just as