Seahorses Are Real

by Zillah Bethell

  Terry says we see the rainbow for a while and then it’s gone. I must try to keep it in my mind’s eye. Will you help me? I know I’ve made you ill but I can make you well again. We can both be well. We can both regenerate, can’t we, like the flowers? Maybe we can see the end of the rainbow together, you and I, if you like. Please let’s try.

  I love you always,

  Marly

  About the Author

  Zillah Bethell lives in Wales with two children, two cats, one husband and an old piano.

  Acknowledgements

  With thanks to Penny Thomas for her support, encourage­ment, and editing precision; DSB for his verbal inventiveness and Grade 8! and SPMB for her unfailing good humour.

  Seren is the book imprint of

  Poetry Wales Press Ltd

  57 Nolton Street, Bridgend, Wales, CF31 3AE

  www.seren-books.com

  © Zillah Bethell 2009

  ISBN: 978-1-78172-120-9

  The right of Zillah Bethell to be identified as the author of this

  work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

  A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted at any time or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters and incidents portrayed are the work of the author’s imagination. Any other resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Cover image: ‘Winnie’ by Rosie Irvine www.rosieirvine.com

  Extract from The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge,

  published by Lion Hudson, reprinted with kind permission.

  The publisher works with the financial assistance of The Welsh Books Council.