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There are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.Helen Simpson
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Sometimes when she woke from a flabbergasting dream Liz would lie very still to see if she could net it before it fled; perfectly still, eyes closed, not moving her head, as if the slightest shift would tip the story-bearing liquid, break its fragile meniscus and spill the night’s elusive catch.Helen Simpson