Status Updates From Duchy

“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.” pg 98

“When Olive was still a newborn, Mark once spent the day at Twickenham with some colleagues and got so drunk he passed out in a friend’s wardrobe and woke up soaked in his own urine. […] If Katherine had done the same, either social services would have been alerted or at the very least she would have been spoken about as a new mother free-falling into self-destruction and parental neglect.” pg 95