You Are Here

by David Nicholls

In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she’d be lonely.

‘You don’t have to be at your best. No one’s interested in you being at your best. We want you exactly as you are.’

He was simultaneously drunk and acting drunk, a kid reeling after a sip of ginger ale, with the particular sensation of being both inside and outside himself, finding everything silly and joyful and hilarious,