That was the one thing June had been terrified of having - a standard life, an ordinary life, a life like her parents’ - living in a pink sandstone semi-detached villa in the suburbs with a neat garde...
That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs, you might leave behind your own bones to be dug up at...
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my...
She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...
She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.
She remembered holding Pamela’s babies – remembered Teddy and Jimmy, too – how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be...
She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly,
She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound le...
Popular versus literary—a false divide?
People have the wrong idea about fairy tales, they think they’re about being rescued by handsome princes, whereas really they’re like Girl Guide handbooks.
People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile.
On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said . On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names - .Jackson wondered how you decided on a name for a room. Or a doll....
Oh, man, ‘the nursery,’ Dominic said, what a hell-hole. If I had kids I’d give them the nicest room in the house.You do have kids, his kid said.Oh, yeah, well, right, you know what I mean.
Of course, the Führer promised a lot of things. It was what had got him where he was today.
Now we must feast!’ Dorothy declared as they headed indoors. Not on the baby, but on its placenta, fried by Jeanette with onions and parsley. Viola declined her portion – it seemed like cannibalism, n...
Mitä ovat todelliset rikokset? Kapitalismi, uskonto, seksi? Murha - yleensä mutta ei välttämättä. Varkaus - samoin. Mutta julmuus ja välinpitämättömyys ovat myös rikoksia. Samoin huonot tavat ja tunte...
Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing
Life is too precious to be unhappy.’ Ursula wondered how many people across London were saying the same thing that night. Perhaps in less salubrious surroundings. And there would be others, of course,...
Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, wor...
It’s the side of reason that I’m on, Teddy said. It just so happens that that’s where you’re always to be found and my mother rarely.