There but for the (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Hannah
• Brooke Bayoude
• Miles Garth
• Hugo
• Genevieve Lee
• Terence
• Bernice
• Richard
• Jennifer
• Eleanor
• Caroline
• Eric
• Milo
• Mrs Young
• Faye Palmer
• Kenna
• Gracie
• Philip
• David
• Patrick
• Wendy Slater
• Brooksie
• Jonathan
• Mrs Masters
• Sal
• Douglas
• Aidan
• Anna Hardie

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• “There was once, and there was only once, he says. Once was all there was.”

  Miles Garth

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• Well, truth’s like the sun. Look right at it and that’s your eyes ruined for life.

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• He didn’t yet know it but he would spend the rest of his life looking back and looking forward in search of it, the still-unpolluted source that feeds into every ruined river.

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• (they were always, she was always, gloriously, just a little late, it made everything worth hurrying for),

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals. —George Orwell

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• But the charm is a kind of deception about a whole new way of feeling lonely, a semblance of plenitude but really a new level of Dante’s inferno, a zombie-filled cemetery of spurious clues, beauty, pathos, pain, the faces of puppies, women and men from all over the world tied up and wanked over in site after site, a great sea of hidden shallows. More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities.

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• Abba songs, as anyone who knows knows, are constructed, technically and harmonically, so as to physically imprint the human brain as if biting it with acid, to ensure we will never, ever, ever, be able to forget them. In twenty years’ time Abba songs will still be being sung, probably even more than they’re being sung now.

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• She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Greenwich
• London
• France
• Paris
• England
• Uk
• Italy
• Europe
• Versailles
• Harbour House

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Ali Smith (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Orange Prize for Fiction (Finalist, 2012, Longlist)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR6069.M4213 T47 2011
• Dewey: 823.914

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary