The Ascent of Mount St Stephens by Deborah Mercer

THE ASCENT OF MOUNT ST STEPHENS

“You PROMISED, Auntie Deb!” Rowena insists.

If there are words that are more poignant, more irresistible, and more manipulative than those, especially when they come from the mouth of a five year old, then I would like to know them. Or maybe I wouldn’t!

Anyway, did I? Did I promise in so many words, or did I just mention? Something tells me that my niece Rowena, and my nephew Robert (they’re not actually brother and sister – Rowena is my sister’s daughter and Robert my brother’s son, but they only live three doors away and they might as well be, as they’re the spitting image of each other and partners in crime when they’re not trying to murder each other!) who’s barely a year older, wouldn’t have any patience for such distinctions and I wouldn’t get away with it.

Fair enough. I’m to blame. A church tower, even an unusual and twisted church tower, isn’t the kind of thing that children, even observant and brigh...

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