‘No, I’m meeting my sister. She’ll be along in a minute. We’re going to the movies. If it’s any of your business.’ ‘What film will you see?’ ‘Beatrice wants to go to Donnie Darko.’ ‘And what film did you end up seeing?’ Taryn frowned at the question. Then she remembered how she had argued for A Beautiful Mind and they’d both been disappointed. Taryn watched Donnie Darko only last winter, in a hotel in Liverpool the night before some bookshop gig. She was very moved by how the hero let everything happen again so that it was he who died, not his sister.
