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Francis Westaway / Uncle Frank
Annabel is the narrator of the sixth chapter. She is Kip’s eventual wife, and Charlotte and Stanzi’s mother. Annabel and her widowed father live in poverty in Richmond, not far from the Westaways, though she only knows Francis and never pays much attention to Kip throughout their childhood. While other young women are getting married and moving away, Annabel stays with her alcoholic father to cook, clean, and care for him since he can no longer take care of himself, effectively taking the parent role in their relationship upon herself. While she is stuck in Richmond, Annabel starts dating Francis, one of the few young men not off to war. Although Francis is overly-serious, Annabel thinks he is handsome and respectable. She is thrilled when he gives her an amethyst pendant, which he tells her he was gifted as thanks for his noble deeds as a young child. Not realizing that this is a lie, Annabel repeats his story about the pendant in public and exposes Francis as a fraud, humiliating him and prompting him to viciously insult her class and gender. Annabel is wounded and furious, and starts to give the pendant back until Kip intervenes, buys the pendant from Francis, and re-gifts it to Annabel himself. In this moment, Annabel realizes that Kip is both honorable and generous. She falls in love with him, marrying him shortly after her father dies from his alcoholism. Together, Annabel and Kip have Charlotte and Stanzi and two grandchildren, Alec and Libby, and Annabel spends the remainder of her life in a retirement village with Kip and Francis.
Annabel Crouch Quotes in Nine Days
The Nine Days quotes below are all either spoken by Annabel Crouch or refer to Annabel Crouch . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: Stanzi
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Maybe lightning isn’t the best analogy for love. Maybe love is more like a coin: moving between people all around us, all the time, linking people within families and on the other side of the world, across oceans.
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Chapter 6: Annabel
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I’ve put so little [money] aside it’s hardly worth hiding. A few coppers to get us through the week. Next week will have to worry about itself. At least it’s November now, heating up fast. I only need enough wood for cooking. It was different when I was in the munitions factory, before the men came home and we girls got our marching orders […] That’s the cold fact about the war: me and Dad never had it so good.
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“I couldn’t go while Ma was alive.” Kip looks Jos square in the face when he says it. “After Connie died, after the inquest and having it in all the newspapers. Having our business picked over by strangers. Most of the women in Richmond would cross the street when they saw Ma coming. Got so she wouldn’t go out the front gate and then so she wouldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t leave her.”
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Chapter 8: Alec
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From what [Kip] says, it seems like all kinds of stupid things had to be kept secret back then. When he says that his sister didn’t die from the flu, Stanzi just nods. Charlotte gets on her high horse about ridiculous sexist taboos and lies and nothing to be ashamed of. Grandma [Annabel] smiles. You can’t imagine what it was like back then, she says. So much pain, all covered over.
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Annabel Crouch Quotes in Nine Days
The Nine Days quotes below are all either spoken by Annabel Crouch or refer to Annabel Crouch . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: Stanzi
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Maybe lightning isn’t the best analogy for love. Maybe love is more like a coin: moving between people all around us, all the time, linking people within families and on the other side of the world, across oceans.
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Chapter 6: Annabel
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I’ve put so little [money] aside it’s hardly worth hiding. A few coppers to get us through the week. Next week will have to worry about itself. At least it’s November now, heating up fast. I only need enough wood for cooking. It was different when I was in the munitions factory, before the men came home and we girls got our marching orders […] That’s the cold fact about the war: me and Dad never had it so good.
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“I couldn’t go while Ma was alive.” Kip looks Jos square in the face when he says it. “After Connie died, after the inquest and having it in all the newspapers. Having our business picked over by strangers. Most of the women in Richmond would cross the street when they saw Ma coming. Got so she wouldn’t go out the front gate and then so she wouldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t leave her.”
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Chapter 8: Alec
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From what [Kip] says, it seems like all kinds of stupid things had to be kept secret back then. When he says that his sister didn’t die from the flu, Stanzi just nods. Charlotte gets on her high horse about ridiculous sexist taboos and lies and nothing to be ashamed of. Grandma [Annabel] smiles. You can’t imagine what it was like back then, she says. So much pain, all covered over.
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