eden On the first day, Eve began. Well, it wasn’t actually the first day. It had been four and a half weeks since they moved, but she had needed that time. She d english
elephantiasis elephantiasis A chronic form of filariasis, due to lymphatic obstruction, characterised by enormous enlargement of the parts affected Macquarie Dictionary M english
lonely heart club JULIA Although she had recently attained the age of thirty-five, Julia was determined that she would not panic. No, she would not panic. She would simply co english
rosie little in the mother country This is a story that begins with the fact that my grandmother on the Little side was frightfully, frightfully English. Although she was prevailed upon, as a english
rosie little joins the dots It is all very well to dream of climbing through the ceiling of a newspaper office via the branching ladder of an overgrown pot plant, out into the starry n english
rosie little’s brilliant career Once upon a time (and I use these words advisedly, in the fervent hope that the sisterhood has by now worked its magic, and things have changed) the demogra english
the anatomy of wolves The wolf has legs. And these were the parts of him that I saw first. I was standing at the bottom of a backstage staircase and he was standing at the top, h english
the deflowering of rosie little The trouble with fellatio, in my view, is its lack of onomatopoeia. Take more honest words like suck, or gargle, or gurgle and … ta-da! Their meanings are a english
the depthlessness of soup Sitting across the table from one another, at about ten past eight on the evening of the second anniversary of the day that they’d met, Paula and Will were english
the true daughter I Kate, says Faye, ‘is a mezzosoprano. For which I am grateful, actually.’ There is opera playing, and it seems to Tamsin ‘ to occupy Faye’s apartment as if english
the wardrobe On the day Justine moved in with Henri, he pushed the clothes in his wardrobe to one side to make room for hers. The wardrobe, with its oak-heavy doors clos english
vision in white Clocks in international airports do not tell the time. Or not, at least, in the usual way. Gathered together within their auspices are refugees from all qua english