Now she was all about quinoa and silky tofu. Nell was twenty-seven, she had an MA in Social Media and Communications, she had a diploma in Digital Marketing, she earned like mad for three months at a time and then, by some gargantuan effort that Carmel could not understand, went off and did what she pleased. And what pleased her was a slightly irritating purity, yoga breaks, surfing weekends, teaching English to refugees. Constant uploads about all this, of course, Nell’s thumbs flying on her screen – as though late capitalism (as she liked to call it) could be defeated by hashtags and eating
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