The Last Wolf: Part 3

By MICHAEL MORPURGO

'I hate shopping,' I told her.

'You're a grumpy old ostrich too,' she said, bending over to kiss me on the cheek. 'We'll get started tomorrow. I'll bring over my laptop, all right? Byeee!'

And she was out of the door and gone, ignoring all my protests. She had won.

All this came about because I'd been ill - just flu at first, but then it became pneumonia. The doctor, who's a good friend of mine as well as my doctor, wagged his finger at me, and said, 'Now you listen to me, Michael McLeod, this is serious. You're no spring chicken any more. You've got to stay in bed, and in the warm. No more gardening, no more golf, no more fishing. You've got to look after yourself.'

So, cooped up in my flat for weeks on end, I had become, as Miya had so rightly diagnosed, bored out of my mind.

Publisher: Random House

Age group: 8-13 yrs


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