“... we in a Catholic church?’ She had once stabbed a priest to death in a film involving John Mills so knew about churches. ‘Yes,’ she said firmly. At which point a plumpish man in a cassock crossed the chancel in order to collect a book from a pew, bowing to the altar en route. ‘See that,’ said the interviewer. ‘The bowing? That’s part ...”

“... was risky but we had done it anyway. One mother recalled waking to find her week-old baby at the foot of the bed completely smothered by the duvet. None of us had slept in a tent with a newborn, but if co-sleeping was tantamount to gross negligence manslaughter then we were all technically guilty. We were lucky though: our children had survived.The ...”

“... Norman down to the London Library to borrow it. Patron of the London Library she had seldom set foot in it and neither, of course, had Norman, but he came back full of wonder and excitement at how old-fashioned it was, saying it was the sort of library he had only read about in books and had thought confined to the past. He had wandered through its ...”