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320 pages, Hardcover
First published February 27, 2024
"I need to go on Seek and find myself a job, and then do that job, and then “start” a “life.”
"I can never get over the sense that when people call me a woman and not a girl they are teasing me somehow."
"All I can think about is when this waiting period will be over, when real life will begin."
"I think back to Soph, to Sarah, to the cafés we used to sit in after school, to not knowing what the future held and thinking that was a hopeful thing. I smile at the schoolgirls and they do not smile at me, as I am old and irrelevant. I want to yell, “Stop! You don’t understand! I was once one of you, I understand you, I love you!”
“I hope I have taught you, my girl, that sometimes the best thing you can do with a day is leave it behind and then start again tomorrow."