“So you don’t fancy meeting up again?’ Max persisted, though Neve didn’t know why, because she thought she’d made her position perfectly clear. ‘Swap war stories?’ ‘I don’t have any war stories,’ Neve said, and in that moment she felt… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“Well, she’s told me very little about you,’ her grandmother replied because she’d survived a war, one stillbirth, a daughter who’d got knocked up at seventeen and ten years of a Labour government, and she didn’t take shit from anyone.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“Was there a better sound in the world than a champagne cork popping? Hell, no.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“thought about having one last kiss, but in the end the only way she could leave was to walk away without looking back.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“...occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“He was old-fashioned looking, Grace decided. Not just the suit, which made him look as though he should be taking the air in one… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“He didn't say anything and I thought I'd shocked him, because I tend to do that. Not just with Michael but with pretty much… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“Generation Y are everything you feared. They’re everything your worst nightmares conjured up. They’re lazy, apathetic, unoriginal, scared of innovation, scared of difference, just… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“When your mother doesn't want to have the sex talk with you any more but instead wants to talk about the possibility that you… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
