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“... where she shared a compartment with some Austrian soldiers who shared their bread, butter and cheese with her. Luck played its part. Back in Berlin, in November 1942, she turned again to Benno Heller, who, given his willingness to perform abortions, had many favours owed him. For the next six months, he organised safe places for Jalowicz to stay, the ...”

“... Think of all the salads and the sun, and blue dresses and waiters. And the smell of butter and cheese in the small streets. I think to live with a girlfriend and have lovers would be almost perfect.’ She and Dorelia did briefly get away from Augustus, but they had all the children with them – four or five by then – and so there wasn’t a great deal ...”

“... had said, sighing. Sunday mornings at Petticoat Lane, buying pickled cucumbers, bagels and cream cheese, and then, after a Chinese lunch in Soho, an afternoon spent at the cinema, first at the news and cartoon house in the Charing Cross Road, and then to Leicester Square for a proper film, in the dark, the long tunnel of dusty light over our heads, his arm ...”

“... and fathers kneel with their children behind them. There was to be one more child, another girl, Chloë. In their pinafores and hair ribbons, with Dennis in knickerbockers, all shy smiles against a background of lawn and shrubbery, it is the stuff of the long Edwardian summer, and equally illusory.Albert had first noticed Margaret when she was ten and living ...”