What One Girl Knows

Just wanted to mention that I am re-reading Kate Atkinson's Emotionally Weird. There are so many delicious descriptions in just the first couple of paragraphs. Here is a sampling of them:

"Small and thin, Terri was dressed, as usual, in the manner of a deranged Victorian governess. She had the pale pallor of a three-day-old corpse on her cheek and, despite the dark on the unlit stair, was wearing Wayfarer Ray-Bans" (17)

"I dressed as if for a polar expedition in as many clothes as I could find -- woollen tights, a long needlecord pinafore dress, several reject men's golfing sweaters that had been acquired in a St. Andrews Woollen Mill sale, scarf, gloves, knitted hat, and, lastly, an old beaver coat, bought for ten shillings in the pawn shop at the West Port, a coat that still had a comforting old lady smell of camphor and violet cachous about it" (22).