• Brisk-quick, energetic and active
• briquettes-a small block made from coal dust or peat, used as fuel in a fire
• feigning-to pretend to feel something, usually an emotion
• mock-to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way
• ferrying-to transport people or goods in a vehicle, especially regularly and often
• prongs-one of two or more long sharp points on an object, especially a fork
• cottage-a small house, usually in the countryside
• sophomore-a student studying in the second year of a course at a US college or high school
• mower-a machine for cutting especially grass
• sipping-to drink, taking only a very small amount at a time
• bitterness-an unpleasantly sharp taste
• preordained-(especially of a power thought to be greater than ordinary people) to decide or fix what will happen in a way that cannot be changed or controlled
• popped- to go to a particular place
• recess- a period of time in the year when the members of a parliament are not meeting
• exasperating- extremely annoying
• dazed-very confused and unable to think clearly because you are shocked or have hit your head
• giggled-to laugh repeatedly in a quiet but uncontrolled way, often at something silly or rude or when you are nervous






Pages 88-194

In these pages Katie and Alex were getting closer. Katie understood that even if she didn't want to like Alex as a man, she was thinking about him all the time. So she decided to ask Alex out for a dinner. Alex was very happy. Days before the dinner Katie renovated her house. She bought new courtains, wallpapers and more stuff for house decorating. It seemed pretty good, almost like a ready home.
At the big dinner night Alex and Katie had a good time. They spoke about everything until it was Katie's past. Alex told that he knew why Katie appeared in the Southport. Katie started to trust Alex, so she told everything about her past.
In her past Katie married to a man named Kevin. Kevin was a detective and had always much work to do. At the beginning of their marriage Katie loved Kevin. But then Kevin started drinking and beating her. Kevin called her Erin and she wasn't allowed to communicate with other people or go shopping. She was complitely out off touch with the world around her. Kevin also broke her two fingers.
Although Katie was still married with Kevin and she couldn't divorce. Alex didn't care. He wanted to be with her, but Alex hadn't still forgotten her dead wife.
Katie told what she did a week before running away. One day she went to hairdresser and she had few minutes until Kevin had to pick her up. So she went to shop and bought a telephone. Kevin didn't suspect nothing. In the next days, when Kevin was at work, she made all her necessary calls and she was ready to leave Kevin. Kevin was away from home for a few days, so Katie had the necessary time to run away.


MY OPINION
I liked these pages. Katie's secrets came out and that's why this book gets more interesting. Also I'm looking forward to see how Katie gets her divorce. I think that Kevin will find Katie and what could happen then? So I will carry on reading.