"The Bell Ringer"

"The Bell Ringer"
by John Burnside

Rating: 8.2



Short story about a woman who realizes that her marriage is unfulfilling and decides to take up bell ringing. Eva Lowe turns off the main coastal road and takes the back way through Kinaldy woods, a magical route she associates with her childhood and her father’s love of folk tales.

As soon as he was in, the car pulled away, heading out of the village and west, toward the lower woods, where the snow would be thick all night, thick and heavy and, even on the road that ran up to Kinaldy and Lathockar, completely unmarked, except for a line of tire tracks that would soon vanish into whiteness. ♦