Klara and the Sun: 'A masterpiece.' Sunday Times

They were afraid because we were new models, and they feared that before long their children would decide it was time to have them thrown away, to be replaced by AFs like us.

There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

I’d begun to understand also that this wasn’t a trait peculiar just to Josie; that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

When Josie wasn’t well, it could turn the color of her vomit or her pale feces, or even develop streaks of blood.

prevaricating.

But how could they be good AFs for their children if their minds could invent ideas like these?

‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I’m glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara.’

I tried to feel in my own mind the anger the drivers had experienced.