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288 pages, Hardcover
First published May 24, 2018
‘The world is not what you have been told,’ he says after the second glass. He is reckless now, as if the water has triggered something in him, strengthened his resolve somehow. He speaks as if from a long way away. ‘I mean, the world is very terrible, but you have been told a number of things that are untrue.’
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‘But you can’t deny that men are killing women?’ I say.
‘Well, no, I can’t. But it’s not like you think.’
"I didn't understand how rapidly things had changed, how all that had been needed was permission for everything to go to shit, and that permission had been granted. I didn't know that there was no longer any need for the men to hold their bodies in check or to carry on the lie that we mattered."These sections make the reader think they know what the book is. But is that what it is?
Once we [three sisters] have a father, but our father dies without us noticing.
It is not for me to disregard their pain ... They are in the minority ... .... [he] can’t deny that men are killing women ... But it’s not like you think All of it is smoke and mirrors, overreaction ... We could be women like any other, taking the usual precautions. Yes, the risk of violence upon us is higher. Even he as a man can’t disregard that.
So this is how it begins she says, but of course it has already begun. It began for us a long time ago.