GCSE English Lit: When the Wasps Drowned

When the Wasps Drowned It is the summertime, during the narrator, Eveline’s, childhood. She remembers her sister standing on a wasps nest and screaming. Her mother is away and she hoses her down. The two younger siblings decide to dig to Australia. Her sister, Therese, takes a ring from a hand found in the soil.Eveline asks her where she got the ring from so Therese shows her the hand. They both bury it up and stop digging. Therese has nightmares about it. The police ring the doorbell asking if their parents are at home. Eveline says no. They ask if she’s seen a girl in the photo, to which she declines. The reader assumes that the girl is the one buried underneath the neighbour, Mr Mordecai’s garden