‘I did my work and looked perfectly happy, tidy and unobjectionable, shining, shining the boot.’
New fiction from Sarah Bernstein.
‘I began to appreciate being amongst things that were mine only. I cleaned with a puritanical zeal.’
An excerpt from Sarah Bernstein’s debut novel, The Coming Bad Days.
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