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...Mary is convinced that if she can just get Mommo to reach the conclusion of her tale, all three of them will be able to move on....
...His sons have had a loveless childhood and the older is a trust fund hippy, while Julian still sustains himself at night by dreaming that his childhood pony is talking to him....
...She shares her depressing flat with her single mother and a younger sister, with both of whom she has seemingly loveless, verbally abusive relationships....
...Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match By Wendy Moore Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £18.99, 376 pages FT Bookshop price: £15.19 Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore, was one of...
...If you look into the churchyard of St Mary Redcliffe you will find a bit of iron girder stuck crookedly in the grass: it was hurled there by a bomb explosion in an air raid, and a plaque tells you so....
...Self-slung out of a loveless marriage – “You don’t interest me spiritually or sexually,” he box-tickingly tells Rebecca Pidgeon – he walks the streets in a confrontation-filled Joycean nocturne....
...24• Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea is about a young Creole woman from Jamaica who is driven mad after being trapped in a loveless marriage to an Englishman....
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