If you need immediate answers for the character's actions while you are reading - this is not the book for you! In fact, some of your questions may never be answered and you are left hanging. Some might say that this is reflective of life - but some would counter that the reason why we read ficti...
It can be anywhere. You like to take me by surprise, you like to lie in wait. I’m standing on the edge of the pavement, watching for the man to go green, or I’m listening to that woman in the doorway of the bingo singing a song, or I’m simply walking, as I do, thinking of nothing, and you’ll appe...
She keeps meaning to get the bus into town, to stock up on groceries, look in the small ads for a job: something easy, temporary, to tide her over while she considers her next move. Then she forgets what it was she was going to do, and only remembers too late. Time flows away from her. Mostly, sh...
No, Frank, says my mother. Yes, Mary, says my father. This one is serious. My mother is shouting too. We’ve already lost one daughter! I haven’t, he says. My mother’s voice goes soft: I imagine her mov...