More sounds of breakage and a sudden waft of coffee. “Can everyone please leave the room so my boyfriend has more space? He needs a fucking lot of space.” She slammed her chair down onto the pile of catsup and dishes. We’ll leave that there.īack to the meeting in the university canteen. It’s a hard book to review without giving spoilers, but the discomfort lies in the fact that it’s now 2021 and there are articles in our media on how the Covid vaccinations are being tested. But then our narrator mentions her sister, Fern, and it all came flooding back and made me very uncomfortable all over again. A couple of girls in a canteen meeting and becoming friends. I read it when it first came out in 2013 and it took a while to recognise it because the title sounds too frivolous for the book it becomes, and the story starts on a bit of a side note.
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