Kerry Hadley-Pryce > Quotes

“She’ll tell how she’d read somewhere – or perhaps Guy had told her – that the enclosed towns of the Black Country have a city’s landscape and a village’s culture”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce, God's Country

“Try Googling ‘map of the Black Country’ and see what you get. Confused, is what you get. It’s neither North nor South, city or countryside. It is a place without borders. And, see, that’s the point: an important aspect of the Black Country is that it is borderless, unmappable, maybe a little bit weird, a little bit exclusive. People argue about where, or what, it is, and that is part of its unique identity.”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce

“Perhaps she was thinking that we’re only ever one layer away from our old selves, that our old selves might have been scraped or washed off or covered up, and a new self is scribed on top. But how permanent is that?”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce, God's Country

“It was, given everything, she’ll say, a brave thing for him to do, move away. Alison, anyway will say that. Perhaps, actually, it was braver for him to return”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce, God's Country

“And anyway, memory is an unreliable thing. Looking back almost always colours things differently”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce, God's Country

“She’ll say she was sure she could hear somebody in the room next door as if memories were embedded, somehow, in the bricks and mortar of the place, but that the whole place was a palimpsest now”
― Kerry Hadley-Pryce, God's Country