Quotes

• "a shaven head full of powerful incantations"
• "children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learnt..."
• "My mother never spoke again in his presence"
• "Which had been the better way to die"
• "This was no longer the father we loved"
• "little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"
• "arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight,"
• "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."