The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.

I am a child of modernism – … As such I have inherited a distrust of the tchotchke, which I have still – …

Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

His skull snapped forward like he'd been donkey-punched. He'd been shot at point-blank range and expected to find the back of his head blown apart: bone fragments, spattered brains.