The Girl in the Shiny Boots
Richard Wollheim: Adolescence, 20 May 2004
“... man from the Post Office. Then there was Sigrid, the Swedish wife of Muriel’s first husband, Mr Cox, whose voice and furs and pale hair I recall, but nothing else to any degree of precision, except that one year my parents, when they still went on holiday together, took her with them to Marienbad, to help her get over some unfortunate affair of the ... ”