Status Updates From The Children of Dynmouth

An absolute masterpiece!

"It was at least fifteen years since he'd carried a glass across the room for her."

"They knew him by sight. He was a boy who was always on his own, often to be seen watching television programmes in the windows of electrical shops. He always wore the same light-coloured clothes, matching his light-coloured hair."

"[Mrs. Vine] had begun to weep. Nothing would induce her, she whispered, to have another bird in the house after poor Beano had gone. You got to love a bird like a human. You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it."

"[Miss Poraway] advanced the opinion that the bird wouldn't last much longer, and recommended Miss Vine the purchase of a new one."

How insensitive!

Mrs Abigail and I would have preferred Miss Poraway would have stayed at home because of her nasal complaint and Mrs Blackham would have taken her place.

"...for there was often trouble where gravy was concerned." (chapter 5, meals on wheels)

"Mrs. Blakey, with busy eyes and cheeks that shone, possessed a nature which had been formed by a capacity for looking on the bright side. Clouds were there for the harvesting of their silver linings, despair was just a word."