There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever… - Linda Grant
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever…
- Linda Grant
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. - Linda Grant
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically adva… - Linda Grant
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically adva…
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we wer… - Linda Grant
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we wer…
A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body? - Linda Grant
A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but … - Linda Grant
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but …
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in. - Linda Grant
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down. - Linda Grant
It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.
Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret. - Linda Grant
Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.
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