Are You Awake? Quotes

“Mary was a nice woman, a lawyer, a mother of two.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“Mary wouldn’t usually play the mother card, but she was getting desperate.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“And she, Mary, suburban mum of two, had been his unwitting accomplice.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“Who’s doing his divorce, do you know?’ A high-profile split like that would have all the big family law firms sniffing about. ‘Freeman and Turner for him, Southey’s for the wife. My friend Katherine works at Southey’s, from Pilates.’ Of course Melia did Pilates, and book club, and sang in a choir. Mary followed her life like a prisoner eyeing their release date – someday, somehow, she would have time for herself again.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“The modern mania for surveillance, trading privacy for the illusion of”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“There was no way to will yourself to sleep. You had to surrender to it, but that was the hardest thing of all.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“The night was so long. Normal people, people who could sleep, just close their eyes and sink into grateful oblivion, they would never truly know how long the night was. How much space there was between midnight and 6 a.m., a time by which it was hardly worth going to sleep, assuming you even could. How many hours to beat yourself up about your every failure and shortcoming. To be stuck with your miserable, wide-awake self, and no escape.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?

“her own mother, widowed for five years, was living her best life at yoga retreats and book groups.”
― Claire McGowan, Are You Awake?