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I'm currently (re)-reading The Coming of Age of the Chalet School where it's the summer term and hot. And then they mention during the Sale that it's 97F = 36C. Given that today is 34C here and likely to be 36C the next couple of days that is really hot!

(Although of course the problem here is the night time temperatures, the lack of much night this time of year and the humidity - I imagine the Swiss Alps are less humid and more breezy)

I came up with a load of head canon for Kate's backstory for my Unconventional Courtship fic, but most of it never made it into the story. So here it is.

Kate met her ex-husband at a bridge club. She had no intention of getting married, but she fell pregnant with their daughter. Given that Gordy's father had buggered off and not really been seen since (that bit is canon from the Downtime book), she married him for some stability.

He blames the breaking down of their marriage on her always working late. But part of the reason she was working late was to avoid going home, since things weren't right between the two of them.

The breaking point came when he accused her of being a bad mother, due to her never being at home, and she threw him out. He tried to get custody, but she told both children the truth and they were old enough to choose for themselves who they lived with.

I managed to finish my Unconventional Courtship fic and post it on the right day!

The trouble I'm having is deciding which answer. It's gone from 'the summary makes it clear it's a no' to 'I want it to be a yes' to 'perhaps it could be a not now but maybe in the future'.