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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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