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She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
a lady of uncertain age in a lilac blouse,
W. G. Sebald • Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)
he told her, about the after-work drinks he didn’t go to, the meet-ups he couldn’t make, the rush to get home every evening so that he could be ordered in an unfriendly tone to listen to rice. He did not like this Melissa with the hard mouth and loveless eyes. He wanted the other Melissa, that old, original Melissa, with the soft and skyward face,
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
All his life Schwartz had yearned to possess some single transcendent talent, some unique brilliance that the world would consent to call genius. Now that he’d seen that kind of talent up close, he couldn’t let it walk away.