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

by Kate Atkinson

“Women cook food because people need to eat,” Dr. Hunter said. “Men cook to show off.”

Ms. MacDonald used the imminence of the Rapture and the Second Coming as an excuse (“What’s the point?”), but really she was just a slovenly person.

Ruskin says that every increased possession loads us with weariness, and he’s right.”