‘There's an awkward interval, when you're ill but not yet conditioned by illness.’
Yogurt. Yogurt taught me something yesterday. I was eating a yogurt, not one I’d bought, something one of the lovers picked up for me, a really creamy one with a crust of fat, not at all my usual style of yogurt. Maybe it was the creaminess, or maybe it was the absurd clashing of the fruits (apric…
Adam Mars-Jones, twice selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists (in 1983...
‘When I think about it, it was terrible the way we behaved when Victor died. We behaved as if we were ashamed of him, or angry’.
‘I put my trophy on a high shelf, and at some stage laid it face down.’
‘There's an awkward interval, when you're ill but not yet conditioned by illness.’
