“the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.” IfsNeedsEndsBigsTogetherBlackGrowingHugeGoes OnSummerGunProtectionEnormousPairsGardeningExaggerationDuskCrocodilesSlugsEnd Of Summer Author:Nan Fairbrother
“I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.” WantWritingMightCoursesNovelGoes OnSelf LoveSummerSittingVictorianLove To Read Author:Joan Didion
“Sometimes I pick up the phone, listen to cold caller alias name, repeat it several times in an incredulous tone and then - bam! - pretend to recognise them. I ask them if they remember the hell of a time we had at the 1985 summer camp when we set fire to the wooden shed, and I keep making things up and go on and on until they end up terminating the call.” IfsEndsSometimesRememberAsksNamesHellFireGoes OnColdSummerPicksPhonesToneRepeatsCampsShedRecogniseSummer CampAliases Author:Sean O'Grady