'A Medal for Leroy' First Impressions
Read this extract from pp.97-98. Here, Jasper the dog has accidentally knocked over and smashed a picture of Michael’s father.
not through glass. He was already somehow more real to me, closer and more alive without the glass in between us. The photo was loose in the frame now, and had slipped down. I noticed there was one small piece of broken glass still trapped there in the bottom corner of the frame. I tried to prise it out with the
there was something else there, a writing pad
point of my pencil, but I couldn’t do it. I’d
about the same size as the photo. On the
have to open up the frame at the back if I was
front it said, ‘Basildon Bond’, in fancy printing,
going to get it out.
and below it, written in pencil, in large capital
I hadn’t really noticed, not until now,
letters:
but the back of the frame was nothing but a piece of cardboard, held in place by a few rusty-looking pins. All I had to do was to pull these out one by one and the cardboard came away easily enough. I had expected to see simply the back of the photograph, but
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there was something else there, a writing pad about the same size as the photo. On the 97
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