What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (2011)
“Another chunk of land being carved off for the housing developers. A wife who’d stopped sleeping with him (just goes to show her regard for money, her desire to continue quite unrealistically in the circumstances, our lifestyle). Gordon Trambert especially bitter, perhaps getting his wife’s reasons wrong, on that one. The ignominy of pulling Alistair out of his last year of private school when one could simply not pay the fees; as well the resentment that for all the money spent on the boy’s ed...ucation he remained the same person: lacking in confidence, overly sensitive, easily irritated and quite frankly a bloody self-pitying, inward-looking lump. For lump he was, this misshapen happenstance of the worst of each parent’s genes, his father’s shapeless legs (and yet I could run like the wind in school cross-country), his mother’s narrow shoulders for the size of his half-Trambert, half-Heatherington head with an exaggerated hooked nose of his mother’s slightly so — face it, the boy was little different to a sheep any farmer would have culled from his flock, rid from his breeding lines.MoreLess
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