Helen Hodgman

Quotes

• “She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was ...”
• “She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed ...”
• “The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the...”
• “He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good...”
• “Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly...”