I take it back, Linda. All is forgiven. Please come back from your family holiday in the sun, the one you keep posting photos of in our work group-chat. You don’t need another sangria by the pool. You definitely shouldn’t have bought that terrible floppy neon pink straw hat at the market and if you really ate that undercooked fish pasta dish then I suspect you’re already suffering from food poisoning but seriously, forget all that, just come back to Castle Bailey.

Yes, I’m willing to beg.

It’s week two of her time off and I did have some temp librarian help, but I’ve been swamped for the last 10 days and I’m not sure I can get to the end of this without a collapse. Perhaps I should “take to my bed with the vapours” like a female character in a...

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