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SUNDAY Mayday in 1980? heat sealing my fingers together. Why is it the most ordinary images that fall out, when I shuffle the memories? Two girls in a secondhand bookshop, hands sticky with sampled perfumes from an afternoon's Dublin. Up these four storeys of shelves, time moves more slowly than outside on the quays of the dirty river. One window cuts a slab of sunlight; dust motes twitch through it. I shut my eyes and breathe in. 'Which did I put on my thumb, Cara, do you remember?' No answer. I stretch my hand towards her over the Irish poetry shelf, as if hitching a lift. 'All I can smell is old books; you have a go. Was it sandalwood?'' Cam emerges from a cartoon, and dips to my hand She wrinkles her nose, which has always reminded me of an 'is less than' sign in algebra. 'Not nice?' I ask. 'Dunno, Pen. Something liquorishy.' Her eyes drift back to the page. '1 hate liquorice.' All I can make out now is vile strawberry on the wrist. I offer my thumb for Cara to smell again, but she has edged down a shelf to Theology. My arm moves in her wake and topples a pyramid of Surprising Summer Salads. I'm sure to have torn one. I have only ninety-two pence in my drawstring purse, and my

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Author

Donoghue, Emma

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062117106

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.6 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14