On Case Histories

Kate Atkinson, Case Histories - Imagine if you could knit time, Christ, her needles would be clacking day and night. . . And anyway, where would she ever find the time to make time? There was no time. That was the whole point. – - She regarded Theo with horror and he was tempted to reassure her that fat wasn’t infections. – - Country children used to walk five miles to school in the morning and five miles home at night without complaining. Or perhaps they did complain but no one ever recorded their comments for posterity. That was how...