B2 Reading

Polite, unsigned notices begin appearing in Mira’s block of flats. Their careful wording hides a mystery: someone knows the residents’ problems, but nobody admits to writing them.

Reporter Amara expects a routine assignment about a city staircase. The people who use its hundred steps reveal a larger story about access, local history and whose voices count.

Postal worker Nadia keeps finding letters addressed to a house she cannot find. She follows the trail through Lantern Row to discover who is still waiting for a reply.

A bat survey interrupts Nora’s familiar routine as a church warden. Strange recordings from the bell tower draw her into a search for an unexpected visitor.

Priya’s carefully scheduled Italian holiday goes wrong when she boards the wrong train. Stranded in Fonte Alta overnight, she must choose how to spend an unplanned day.

Dina is asked to prepare the report closing a city tram line. Riding the route and speaking to passengers makes her question what the official figures leave out.

Iris inherits a cottage beside an old wood. When she notices a glow beneath a beech tree at night, her curiosity as a science teacher draws her into an investigation.

Travelling alone, Marta boards a small ferry on the northern coast. A Wednesday visit to an island introduces her to lives that rarely appear in a tourist itinerary.

Iris works alone in a flat facing another woman’s window. A wave begins a friendship across the courtyard, until the window opposite unexpectedly goes dark.

When the lift at Wren Court breaks down, nurse Priya begins to see how her neighbours live. A daily inconvenience becomes a shared struggle to get the building repaired.