Ariadne: The Brilliant Feminist Debut that Everyone is Talking About

undulating

xenia?’

portentousness

I took that story with me in the coming days and turned it over, like the stone in a ripe peach: the sudden, unexpected hard shock in the centre of everything.

indignities

I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.’

Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?

But as I studied him – and believe me, I drank him in like a parched animal at a riverbank – I began to see the cold, steady certainty of the chill green depths.

she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.