When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)

by Kate Atkinson

On the other side of the wall they could hear the horrible animal noises that meant their parents were friends again.

Everything Joanna had was handed down from Jessica. It was as if without Jessica there would be no Joanna. Joanna filled the spaces Jessica left behind as she moved on.

If he could have got hold of one, he would have borrowed a dog, and then he would have looked like a clone of every other visitor. You should be able to rent dogs. Now there was a gap in the market.