I really wanted to like this book more. And actually, I thought the book was "pretty cute" until about 2/3 of the way through, and then everything just went :PPPPP for me.First of all, I really had no idea what KIND of book I was reading. Was it a love story? A mystery? A ghost story? A come...
She had been in an in-between place, protected. He thought she was too weak still, and would have never said it out loud but ‘The baby died,’ she said, on the morning of the fifth day. ‘I don’t think it was ever going to stay. What did they do with it?’‘I don’t know.’‘Was it a boy?’‘Yes.’‘I knew ...
She had made do with putting her make-up in the drawers of Elizabeth’s dressing table, though. She put on some lipstick. Gilbert would be home soon. She smiled at herself in the mirror. She wasn’t going to be put off. She was going to make Lewis better. She would think of something. She needed to...
Paul and Luke took the last tube home and didn’t mention the play. Usually they deconstructed everything they saw exhaustively, but not this. Paul talked about rehearsals and Luke listened, and tried to get himself back, and pretend. At Barons Court they bought some stale chips for half price b...