The Last Bookshop in London

by Madeline Martin

how anger could be used to mask hurt, especially when hurt was such a very vulnerable emotion.

Ugliness in a person was not born, but created. Perhaps he had endured a hardship that had made him so cruel. Suddenly she regarded him in a different light. Not with anger, but compassion. And with the knowledge that his mistreatment had nothing to do with her, and everything to do with him.