Summary

Chapter 13 takes place in 2012 and focuses on Viola.

Viola was visiting her father at Poplar Hill, the care home (nursing home) she had convinced him to move to. She was watching the Queen of England on television as Teddy laid in bed, fairly unresponsive. He was coming to the end of his life and acted as such. She was with her father in an effort to erase her humiliation from the night before.

The previous evening Viola had been in York. She had hoped to meet up with some of her former girlfriends, but the phone numbers she had for them weren't the correct numbers anymore. She sat in her hotel room and had thought of her ex-husband, Wilf Romaine. She had kept his last name so that she might sound more interesting as an author. She pondered her...