“I’m not a murderer….I’m just a slut, and you can’t be acquitted of that.”
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
"We're in no position to let the state question our loyalties. Don't you understand that? If you cooperate, it makes a difference."
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
“Before I got married I believed love could do anything. I learned soon enough that it couldn’t bear the weight of four years without children.
The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
“What would they think of her now, her old lefty student friends, coming back as a fertility tourist? Was she now the colonial memsahib? The benevolent bringer of bounty or the ruthless trader, smiling her way back home?”
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
“The underside piece of skull was colored blood, its flesh still holding onto strands of graying hair.”
The Woman Next Door
“It was known that the two women shared hedge and hatred and they pruned both with a vim that belied their ages.”