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  • Published 20110131
  • ISBN: 9781921656996
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

IF ASKED THEN why I had not returned to London I could have – would have – given several clear reasons that, looking back, I recognised as mere rationalisations; transient structures of thought that clear a space for some deeper instinct or intuition to do its work. I didn’t go back because it felt right not to; because some inchoate resistance – some feeling that didn’t need a name and would never acquire one – welled up in my chest and said stay.

Sometimes you just did things. You surprised even yourself.

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Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey writes fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of several novels, including the award-winning Camille's Bread, and two Quarterly Essays. Her most...

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