Marina Lewycka

“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar.So this was to be his condition now.What was he but a fragment of broken churned-uphumanity washed up on this faraway shore? This was where his journey had brought him.... There mus be a song in this...”

“As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.”