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Chapter 2- Mallory

Mallory sat at her desk, trying to think of an award winning idea for her next book. She was finding it hard because her life was boring and she had nothing to do. She was not married, although she had been twice before, and she had no children so she had no life.
Mallory was a writer. She regretted her choice, because she had had the chance to be a teacher, and she realised that in the long term, that would have been a better plan than to be a writer.
She had only successfully written one book, called 'The love triangle', which was the story of Mary Anne's suicide and Dawn's part in it. She heard the letterbox clatter and went to the front door to collect the post. There was one letter from her Mum and Dad and another one, which was also from Stoneybrook. She opened the letter and read it. It contained an invitation to the opening of Claudia's exhibition at the art gallery in Stoneybrook.
Now here was a story she could write.