True Stories: unfaithful wife
DISCREET AND CONFIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERS
The Art of Leaving the Room Without Saying Goodbye
I was standing in my kitchen in Newcastle, staring at a pan of boiling potatoes, when the news broke about…
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What the Mechanical Thrush Knows: Diary of an Unfaithful Wife in Brighton
The Crowd Below The workshop in the North Laine smells of shellac and the peculiar peace that only inanimate things…
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The Sleep of Reason: A Day in the Life of an Unfaithful Wife in Montreal
Let me tell you about a Tuesday in October. A specific Tuesday, the one after the news broke about the…
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The Cartography of Absence: A Testimony
There is a word for the space between the life you live and the life you watch yourself live. I…
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The Silence Between Two Rings: A Day in the Life of an Unfaithful Wife on the Gold Coast
She is an unfaithful wife on the Gold Coast, and no one knows. Not her husband, who still leaves the…
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The Geometry of Want: A Birmingham Story
H1: The City Remembers What You Forget There’s a particular quality to the light in Birmingham in late autumn. It…
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The Cartography of an Interval
Some places on a map are not meant to be visited. They exist only as blank spaces, cartographic conveniences, places…
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The Archaeology of a Secret: One Sheffield Woman’s Divided Life
The Surface Layer: A Life on Devonshire Green The first thing you notice about Helena is that she never fidgets.…
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The Map on the Ceiling
I began noticing the crack in the plaster above our bed about eighteen months ago. Not the marriage’s crack, that…
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The Art of Disappearing: Notes on a Parallel Life in Melbourne
Some decisions arrive not as thunder, but as a shift in the barometric pressure of a Tuesday afternoon. I was…
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