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

by Kate Atkinson

“No matter how much I get rid of, there’s never any less,” she sighed. “Law of physics,” Reggie said.

“Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don’t know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,” she said

She was being brought up as an atheist, but she spoke the language of martyrs. Perhaps Catholicism was genetic, in the blood.

It was funny how you could sound like a different person depending on who you were attached to.