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Because I obsessively read this immediately after Defending Jacob, I caught the repeat of the line “You’re discussing, I’m arguing.”

Hilarious: “He sweated on the Circle line, feeling irritated by every other person in the carriage with him - they were too smelly, too noisy, too close, too tall, too fat, holding too much newspaper, or just offensively unattractive. Smith had fantasies about embedding pickaxes into their skulls.”

“You don’t look much like Lucy. You don’t look anything like David Thomsen. You look just like your dad.”

CHILLLLLLSS NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED

Chills at “At the very back of the drawer, in black pencil, someone had scrawled the words: “I am Phin.”

I hope I’m meant to love Miller and not be highly suspicious that he somehow quickly found those words in an unusual place.

“Kim watches her at the bus stop from the front window sometimes, her fresh-faced baby in her casual college gear, her hair tied back, clutching a folder to her chest. Nobody would ever guess that she has a child of her own at home, she looks so young.”

“The daughter is still a daughter and the mum and dad are still a mum and dad! Even though they are all three ancient! Eve finds that quite profound.”

“I boarded behind a very tall young man wearing blue tracksuit pants and a white T-shirt. He reminded me of the very tall young boy I once loved. I told myself that many young men have vulnerable necks. It is the juxtaposition of their broad shoulders and boyish hairlines that breaks your heart.”