Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

“There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a soun…”

“I suppose a better sister would have set about weaving him a shirt from nettles…”

“A 'career woman,'" Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same se…”

“She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never b…”