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‘She opens the shower door and turns the handle, waits for the water to get warm. In the meantime she brushes her teeth quickly, spits white lather neatly down the drain, and takes her hair down from the knot at the back of her neck. Then she strips off her dressing gown and hangs it on the back of the bathroom door’: the author constantly walks her readers through every step of her characters’ mundane actions.

The plot is definitely more intense in the last third of this novel.