Just Like You

by Nick Hornby

It wasn’t her failure, at least in her opinion, but it didn’t matter who claimed it.

Cooking kept the evening away from the afternoon

I’m expressing sympathy and despair. I have plenty of both, and I can’t do much about the latter, but I can cut out the former if it helps.’

The referendum was giving groups of people who didn’t like each other, or at least failed to comprehend each other, an opportunity to fight. The government might just as well be asking a yes/no question about public nudity, or vegetarianism, or religion, or modern art, some other question that divided people into two groups, each suspicious of the other.