Status Updates From The Undertow

It was gradual, the fade-out from beauty. It wasn’t any particular thing, no hard line, no threshold from one state to the next. But gradually the men stopped staring; and they stopped being angry at her, because they’d stopped wanting her. And she finds that she prefers it like this. To go unnoticed, unremarked upon. She’s enjoying her anonymity.

Jo Baker has this talent of writing a character that comes alive just in a few strokes that has a distinct voice and personality. Page 170 and we had so much already. I don't encounter this often. And she's criminally undervalued.