Everyone I know seems to ... spend all their time training and doing special diets, while I'm eating takeaways and living the emotional life of a teenager.

She knew as much about being a woman as she needed to...

First there is her real face, completely naked...the face her mother gave her.

She is a brunette...whom one must meet several times before recognizing her...

...the table with the old ladies. They laugh constantly, and perhaps for no reason, with that lightheartedness which comes to a woman when the peril of men has at last left her.