Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.


The Lieutenant (ed. Canongate Books, 2009) - ISBN: 9781847673985


Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy ...

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy ...

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy ...

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy ...