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by Francis Spufford (Goodreads Author)

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Cora is used to sudden explosions that come at a light being left on, or realising too late she’s been overly friendly in the way she’s spoken to a tradesman. She lives trying not to set a match to Gordon’s anger, but still she spills ...more

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“The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we’ll work to keep them.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

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“It’s so hard to get life right, she thinks, pulling the blanket tight around her shoulders. All the small balances are impossible to strike most of the time. And then there are the larger choices. It’s hopeless. She might as well be one of those gannets, tossed about by the gusts of wind that drive up from the Atlantic.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Evening Chorus

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“Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

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“People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos.”
― Marlon James, John Crow's Devil

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“And the more she says the words ‘fallopian tubes’ the less real they are. They sound like some long-forgotten musical instrument from a Pacific Island and I can hear the advert for an album of fallopian tube classics on TV: “From the foothills of Fallopia, the haunting sound of the fallopian tubes brings alive all your favourite anthems from the world’s greatest artists....”
― Colette Snowden, The Secret To Not Drowning

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