Bron
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Bron-1
Chapter 1 She hit the surface of the water, arms and legs spreadeagled, with a crash rather than a splash. “MAM!” she shrieked. The cold hit her like...
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Bron-2
Continued from Chapter 1: Bron-1 | ABCtales Chapter 2 Bron had been one of Chris’s finds. He’d seen her in a coffee shop on Queensway in Bayswater...
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Bron-3
Continued from Chapter 2: Bron-2 | ABCtales Chapter 3 Linda arrived home at six at the small flat, on the corner of Great Cumberland Place and George...
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Bron-4
Continued from Chapter 3: Bron-3 | ABCtales Chapter 4 Bron peered at Mon Despoir ’s menu. “Liver with marmalade? Must be having a laugh.” “It’s not...
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Bron-5
Continued from Chapter 4: Bron-4 | ABCtales Chapter 5 It had been a long walk in the dark from Edgware Road to Willesden. At meal break, she’d ask...
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Bron-6
Continued from Chapter 5: Bron-5 | ABCtales Chapter 6 The lounge in the Maryfield Senior Home was dark, save for a small pool of light from a small...
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Bron 7
Continued from Chapter 6: Bron-6 | ABCtales Chapter 7 The brakes thumped on the final time on the five-hour journey. The night had closed in at...
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Bron-8
Continued from Chapter 7: Bron 7 | ABCtales Chapter 8 Pubs were grim places, in Bron’s very limited experience, but she liked the Plasterer’s Arms in...
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Bron-9
Contined from Chapter 8: Bron-8 | ABCtales It was a dreamy, slightly misty, warm Friday morning. Bron leaned against the windowsill, watching the...
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Bron-10
Continued from Chapter 9: Bron-9 | ABCtales Chapter 10 “I say, Bron - there’s a guy stood on the traffic island - looking up at our windows.” Bron...
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Bron-11
Continued from Chapter 10: Bron-10 | ABCtales Chapter 11 Chris reached down and switched off the VCR. He breathed out, in the manner of someone...
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Bron-12
Continued from Chapter 11 Bron-11 | ABCtales When she was crossing Oxford Circus, walking across the Big Park – she still called it that, even though...
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Bron-13
Continued from Chapter 12: Bron-12 | ABCtales Chapter 12 The worn tyres of Geoff’s van struggled for grip on the corrugated surface as they rounded a...
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Bron-14
Continued from Chapter 13: Bron-13 | ABCtales Charing Cross McDonalds was loud with football chants, lads jostling and scuffling as they stuffed...
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Bron-15
Continued from Chapter 14: Bron-14 | ABCtales It was six weeks later, three pm; South Greenwich Magistrates' Court was working its way steadily...
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Bron-16
Continued from Chapter 15: Bron-15 | ABCtales “Oh, and one more thing, Fred. We’ve got a new trainee shunter starting tonight.” “Get away, Phil! Not...
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Bron-17
Picture: Peter Thwaite Continued from Chapter 16: Bron-16 | ABCtales “You be OK?” said the Australian woman in the Notting Hill Secondhand Exchange...
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Bron-18
Continued from Chpater 17: Bron-17 | ABCtales Wednesday morning. The sun, still hidden, but beginning to brighten the clouds. The roar of the...
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Bron-19
Continued from Chapter 18: Bron-18 | ABCtales “You can have anything on the menu that you fancy, girls.” Ger settled into his seat, though the dark...
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Bron-20
Continued from Chapter 19: Bron-19 | ABCtales It hadn’t been a bad morning’s filming, thought Chris. At least, not bad by recent standards, and not...
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Bron-21
Continued from Chapter 20: Bron-20 | ABCtales Chris and Geoff were well into their second pints in the front bar of Ye Olde Mitre; it was nearly one...
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Bron-22
Continued from Chapter 21: Bron-21 | ABCtales Chris returned with more glasses on a tray. “You know when I ditched the plane in the Pacific – that...
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Bron-23
Continued from Chapter 22: Bron-22 | ABCtales The dome light pooled over the desk in the cab of No. 47840; otherwise everything was in darkness apart...
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Bron-24
Continued from Chapter 23: Bron-23 | ABCtales The lights of Dawlish twinkled. No one stirred in the small resort as 47840 powered through. Rain – or...
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Bron-25
Continued from Chapter 24: Bron-24 | ABCtales Chapter 25 Bron chained her bike to a lamppost outside the Seven Stars. She put the second lock too;...
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Bron-26
Continued from Chapter 25: Bron-25 | ABCtales It was thirty-five years ago, maybe to the very day. They’d all been at Menai Bridge Fair, him, Gwynfor...
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Bron-27
Continued from Chapter 26: https://www.abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-ish/bron-26 The adrenalin surge that had carried her up the hill had worn off by...
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Bron-28
Continued from Chapter 27: Bron-27 | ABCtales “Well, if I had a pound for every bugger who said what a character he was I’d be … well, I wouldn’t be...
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Bron-29
Continued from Chapter 28: Bron-28 | ABCtales Bron cycled slowly along New Birch Moor Lane, towards the depot. She’ managed to get through on the...
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Bron-30
“That all you have, Bron?” Grace pointed to the plastic holdall and six overstuffed carrier bags on the landing of Flat 3 on Great Cumberland Place...
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Bron-31
Continued from Chapter 30: Bron-30 | ABCtales The cast and crew of West Two productions, ranged across the motley collection of old armchairs and...
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Bron-32
Continued from Chapter 31: Bron-31 | ABCtales The grey cloud over Vauxhall Cross seemed to darken, settle down a little lower above the growling,...
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Bron-33
Continued from Chapter 32: Bron-32 | ABCtales Grace tapped gently on the door of Georgetta’s third-floor flat. “Come in … door’s not locked.” Her...
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Bron-34
Continued from Chapter 33: Bron-33 | ABCtales “Wow! That’s some machine you’ve got there, Mary,” said Fernandez. The black and chrome Dell notebook...
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Bron-35
Continued from Chapter 34: Bron-34 | ABCtales “Well, it was worth a try,” said Bron as she closed the door of the Fulham Snake Shack behind them,...
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Bron-36
Continued from Chapter 35: Bron-35 | ABCtales Mary Hinds grunted as she replaced the receiver on the care home phone. It had taken a good half hour...
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Bron-37
Continued from Chapter 36: Bron-36 | ABCtales “Bit of a bummer, the landlord finding out about Petouche, like that,” said Grace. “I mean, we always...
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Bron-38
Continued from Chapter 37: Bron-37 | ABCtales ‘This is the 08.03 from London Euston to Holyhead. Calling at Rugby, Tamworth, Stafford, Crewe, Chester...
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Bron-39
Continued from Chapter 38 Grace levered herself out of the front seat of the van; John-John and Bron had insisted that she take pride of place in the...
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Bron-40
Continued from Chapter 39: Bron-39 | ABCtales “Might I ask, what exactly are you looking for, Mr Barnes?” said Mary Hinds, more than a little...
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Bron-41
Continued from Chapter 40: Bron-40 | ABCtales “Well, you’re in the right place if you want to hear Welsh spoken,” Bron said to Grace. They were in...
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Bron-42
Continued from Chapter 42 ‘Dear Mary’ , the email read. ‘ Really sorry not to have got back sooner. I was aware that you called and left a message...
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Bron-43
Continued from Chapter 42: Bron-42 | ABCtales “So, how are you all enjoying Holyhead, Mrs…er, I don’t think we exchanged names on the train, did we...
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Bron-44
Continued from Chapter 44: Bron-43 | ABCtales Bron had just settled down with a month-old copy of Company, feet tucked underneath her legs in the...
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Bron-45
Continued from Chapter 44: Bron-44 | ABCtales Mary Hinds gave the door of the caravan a sharp tap with the feet of her zimmer-frame. It flew open and...
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Bron-46
Continued from Chapter 45: Bron-45 | ABCtales “What are you smiling at?” said Bron. They were in Hyde Park, Grace’s lunch break. The noise of the...
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Bron-47
Continued from Chapter 46: Bron-46 | ABCtales “Well, the situation is this,” said Chris. “Pyramid have decided to … downscale the production. No big...
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Bron-48
Continued from Chapter 47: Bron-47 | ABCtales “You won’t get in trouble for this, Vicar?” said Bron. Reverend Gwynfor Evans lay back further in the...
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Bron-49
Continued from Chapter 49: Bron-48 | ABCtales The sun burst out from behind the grey cloud as the Grace, Bron, Mam, John-John and Sian pushed open...
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Bron-50
Continued from Chapter 49: Bron-49 | ABCtales Grace pushed open the door of the little church. The Reverend Gwilym Evans was there, straightening the...
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Bron-51
Continued from Chapter 50: Bron-50 | ABCtales The footpath disappeared at the edge of the spinney; there was no obvious way up. Grace pointed with...
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Bron-52
Continued from Chapter 51: https://www.abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-ish/bron-51 Blindly Grace threw herself forward, into the wind, like a diver...
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Bron-53
Continued from Chapter 52: Bron-52 | ABCtales Grace flipped on the kettle and plonked two chipped mugs onto the kitchen table. “So, what did you tell...
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Bron-54
Continued from Chapter 53: Bron-53 | ABCtales Bron exited Sloane Square tube, sharp left, heading for Sloane Street. Then she did a double-take, spun...
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Bron-55
Continued from Chapter 54: Bron-54 | ABCtales Lorraine Sanderson twisted round to grasp the glass of water on the bedside table, then slumped back,...
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Bron-56
Continued from Chapter 55: Bron-55 | ABCtales Tommy looked up from his toy truck and bus collection that he’d arranged neatly on the lino of the...
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Bron-57
Continued from Chapter 56: “Oh, Tommy, stop! Don’t touch them. You might catch a disease.” Three skulls grinned vacantly from the, chaotic,...
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Bron-58
Continued from Chapter 57: “This is where we first met, isn’t it?” “Yeah, it is. You were fiddling about with that flower-bed.” “I was not fiddling...
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Bron-59 of 59 - Final Chapter
Continued from Chapter 58: Bron-58 | ABCtales The reviews of Lieutenant Hinds had been pretty good, all things considered. The Times had praised the...
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