Spare Brides (2014)
“He was often confused by the two contradicting emotions: that of feeling trapped and that of relishing the challenge of disentangling himself. He didn’t understand it but knew it was to do with what had happened in France. The mud had trapped him; he’d trudged through it, sunk into it. Then he’d crawled through it, slept in it; the mud and the blood. It had rotted his boots, seeped into his skin, into his mouth, up his nose, but somehow he had not drowned in it. When he’d had to, he’d burrowed ...deeper into the mud, urinated, puked and bled into it, but he had not been smothered by it. He had been promoted and decorated, he had been a success. A success because he hadn’t been buried in the land; he had clambered, fought and clawed his way out of it. Edgar thought it was a miracle or luck that he hadn’t died in the war; his point of view wavered depending on his mood.
When he opened the curtains and saw that the snow had seized the land overnight, he felt an overwhelming need to trample through it.MoreLess
When he opened the curtains and saw that the snow had seized the land overnight, he felt an overwhelming need to trample through it.MoreLess
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