My Second Husband Believed I Had Such

I Know That Brighton Is Famously A Mixture Of The Seedy And The Elegant, But In The Summer Of 2001 Seediness Swamped Elegance Hands Down.

In Barcelona, Things Seem So Different. For Example, I Know That It's Traditionally The Least Spanish City, But You'd Never Know They Had A Monarchy, Coming Here As A Tourist - As Opposed To The Uk, Where The Queen Is Probably The Best-known Animal, Vegetable And/or Mineral Going When It Comes To Overseas Visitors.

As A Child, I Wanted Only Two Things - To Be Left Alone To Read My Library Books, And To Get Away From My Provincial Hometown And Go To London To Be A Writer. And I Always Knew That When I Got There, I Wanted To Make Loads Of Money.

Rachel Cusk's Books Are Like Pop-up Volumes For Grown-ups, The Prose Springing Out Of The Page To Bop You Neatly Between The Eyes With Its Insights.

To Believe That One, Or Even Three, Mates Can Supply All The Things One Needs From One's Friends Is As Stupid As Believing Married Couples Must Do Everything Together.