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When he was a boy he didn't know anyone who got their hands dirty for a living. Now he was an MP everyone he knew had dirty hands.

Would her children be happy? Lucy won-dered. Probably not. Hardly anyone was. Little moments - that was the best you could ask for, an epiphany here and there, the occasional short-lived burst of joy. The world turning one more time. (…) Little lights in the dark.

He would have made an excellent politician: he had good hair and lied easily.