Mark Mills

“I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.”

“Here! Turn left, I know a short cut through Barons Court."We spend the next twenty minutes mired in roadworks in Barons Court with a bunch of other people who know Edie's short cut.”

“He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a shred of cloth could have so much destructive power locked away in it.”