THE NEW GIRLS
Mar 04, 2021
4 minutes
by Rachel Hore
You have 30 days to change your mind.’ Aruna’s eye fell on the text of a letter that had tumbled out of her bag while she was scrabbling, too late, for her ringing phone. If only she could unmake her decision to move here.
Waiting at the school gate for her daughter, while the other parents huddled in chattering groups, felt the loneliest she’d ever been. A lump came into her throat at the memory of Hattie’s infant school in west London, where everyone had been so friendly. Only a week since they’d said goodbye…
Aruna couldn’t change her mind about the divorce, or its financial settlement that had sent her and Hattie 15 miles south where the rents
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