Tag: debut
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The Satsuma Complex
“My mum used to tell me that I was blessed with a good imagination and should use it to my advantage—to relieve any boredom and inject perspective and joy into my life.”
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Queen K
Chalet girl meets Below Deck meets the Talented Mr Ripley meets The Great Gatsby… with some Russian billions thrown into the mix.
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How To Kill Your Family
“Life is so short and we spend so much of it talking to terrible people about the minutiae of their nothing lives. I cannot do it with any enthusiasm.”
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Before My Actual Heart Breaks
“I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of his dark eyelashes dance by the light of a Tilley lamp. It’s not the first lie I’ve told myself.”
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Conjure Women
“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were…two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
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Such A Fun Age
“But people do pay other people to act like part of the family. That doesn’t mean it’s not a transaction.”
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