Mutton -

India Knight

Fig Tree

2012

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-10: 1905490844

'My most memorable builder line, in the days when they still talked to me, was "Your eyes are like spanners. Every time I see them, my nuts tighten." It's vulgar, I grant you, but no-nonsense... Are my eyes still like spanners? They look all right to me as I peer into the hall mirror. There are lines at their edges, obviously, but that's because I'm 46 and I smile. I also laugh. I laugh now, mirthlessly and exaggeratedly, to make the bigger lines come: hahaHA. They're not tiny, the lines, but nor are they huge. I mean, they're not crevasses... You know how in films women of a certain age press their palms against their cheeks and pull up, to view the effect a hypothetical facelift might have, and how this denotes "Our heroine realizes that she is ageing"? I'm not going to do that.