Extracts

I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure.

It all began with Mallory’s tooth.

There was no peace, even in the loo. Rory’s pager and phone were going simultaneously.

In the spring of 1944, I was sixteen, living with my parents and two older sisters in Kassa, Hungary.

I am in the spare room, which doubles as my office, and I have just finished my day’s work.

I heard him before I saw him.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth.

“Remember dunker training at Pendleton?”

An airship quietly sails across early in the morning and shakes us up with a taste of bombs.

It wasn’t until I did that test that I really thought about how aspects of my personality and my strengths could affect my mental health, through my reactions and approaches to things.

Killing someone is easy. Hiding the body, now that’s usually the hard part. That’s how you get caught.

In that crowded city, she had worked for a haberdasher and presided over the slow death of her mother, after which she’d discovered in herself an unexpected yearning to leave Ireland and see the world.

Sujin is hell-bent on becoming a room salon girl.

The two suspects sat on mismatched furniture in the white and almost featureless lounge, waiting for something to happen.

I duck down and pull my hoodie close around my face.

The Polydorus is a charming family-run hotel, located a short walk away from the lively town of Agios Nikolaos, one hour from Heraklion.

The dust of mountain flowers lay thick on the air, like perfume or boiled varnish.