True Stories: unfaithful wife

DISCREET AND CONFIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERS

The Art of the Parallel Life: Notes on Becoming

A City of Ghosts and Glances There is a particular quality to the light in my part of London in…

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The Tide That Takes Her: A Southampton Story

Southampton is a city that wears its history like a heavy coat. The memory of the Titanic, the relentless buzz…

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The Day I Stopped Counting the Years

I turned forty in March, and my husband gave me a Vitamix. I’m not being ungrateful; it’s a very good…

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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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