This week’s book of the week is Square One by NellFrizzell. It follows Hanna as she hits her 30s and is confronted by the goals she hasn’t met and the general murkiness she feels about her future. Read an exclusive extract here.
This week’s book of the week is Square One by Nell Frizzell, author of the Panic Years. It follows Hanna as she hits her 30s and is confronted by the goals she hasn’t met and the general murkiness she feels about her future. Read an exclusive extract here.Like finding her name in someone else’s address book, seeing her face in the background of a stranger’s photo, or really smelling the inside of her elbow; for a second, less perhaps, Hanna was no longer herself.
With a small sigh, they pulled in behind a van advertising ‘Cranston Scaffolding – Experts in Erections’ and Hanna creaked open the door. The day was unseasonably warm and as she lowered her foot towards the pavement, a thick blare of sunshine hit the tops of her ankles, picking out the thin, pale hairs like the feathering around the top of a shire horse’s hoof. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d done anything to this winter pelt.
The loneliness washing through Hanna erupted that night into an argument. One of the few she and Joe had ever had Her friend Dom had spent three days suggesting plans and then failed to commit to any of them. Even if by some miracle he was free, Dom lived in Hackney, Hanna in Brockley, meaning it would take both of them an hour to reach somewhere even vaguely central. Her colleagues had all gone straight home from work murmuring about the gym or having a flat viewing. And Joe? Well, Joe had been at band practice. Of course.Joe’s band was, let’s be charitable here, awful.
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