Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

by Jodi Taylor

you cannot let your home circumstances define your entire life. You are intelligent – you have abilities of which you are not even aware.

‘Go straight up the drive and through the front door. You can’t miss it.’ A bit over-optimistic there, I thought. I once got lost on a staircase.

Studying history opened doors to other worlds and other times and this became my escape and my passion.

Silence holds no fears for me. I never feel the urge to fill it as so many other people do.

Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people.

‘It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.’

Strangely, I found the conclusion quite liberating. When you’re fucked, you’re fucked. Things really can’t get much worse.

And let’s face it, between the pair of us, we have more qualifications than you could throw a short peasant at. In fact, if you didn’t know us at all, you’d think we were quite respectable.’

He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that.