One day she finds that there is a house and somehow it still appears to belong to both of them despite a forty plus year silence between them. Until she was 14 Miranda was far closer to her Grandmother but then she went to a boarding school near to Armand and got to know the prickly man who was pernickety, fussy and an unlikely companion for a lonely teenager but every now and again a snippet from the past would present itself, often in the form of a book or a painting. Quite astonishingly Miranda was quite old before she even realised that they had once been married to each other as they didn’t talk to each other at all. As a child Miranda suffered with fears that would be inexplicable in most young children but Miranda had grown up with shadowy stories of having to flee in the night and being ready just in case… this is because both her Grandparents, Anna and Armand were Jewish and had been in France at the time of the Second World War.
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