Conviction

by Denise Mina

sometimes you have to fit into life, or waste a lot of time and energy wishing it would fit in with you.

‘Personal fashion isn’t a celebration, it’s a defence. It’s the armour of everyday life.’

I could almost smell the money, or at least the absence of other smells, which is perhaps what money really smells like.

Self-pity makes tyrants, it’s the defining characteristic of brutal regimes, but