Sublime

I daresay I must call this my home – though truly there never was so dank and drear a place – though Essex being flat and featureless at least has in its favour the kind of skies which all my life I have sought – I confess to having been surprised by affection for my husband – this dreadful emotion roused by discovering that he has commissioned a r

I wondered how it would feel to perform such simple deeds for other people. I

inures

Coralie was absolutely ruthless about not engaging in what the experts called “body talk” in front of the girls. No staring into the mirror, smoothing her thighs with a disgusted face. No “I feel bloated,” no “I earned this treat,” no gossip about people’s appearances, none of it. Years ago, she’d spent ages carefully live-editing Roald Dahl while

inchoate

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women