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“Nadine found herself standing in front of a row of streaming faces, like waxworks of forgotten celebrities being melted down before coming back as more contemporary figures.”

Book:Moon in a Dead Eye

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Moon in a Dead Eye

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“I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food.”

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Author:David Nicholls

“. . . a shrunken old man, squashed into the chair like a stubbed-out cigarette.”

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Book:Moon in a Dead Eye

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“The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.”

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Book:Hoot

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“A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.”

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Book:This Census-Taker

Source: This Census-Taker

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