Only Those Who Haven't Got

My Second Husband Believed I Had Such A Fickle Attitude To Friendship That Each Friday He Would Update The List Of My 'top Ten' Friends In The Manner Of A Top Of The Pops Chart Countdown.

I Have Experienced Jealousy, Possessiveness, Verbal Abuse And Violence From Men, But I Have Also Experienced Jealousy, Possessiveness, Verbal Abuse And Violence From Women, Usually When I Failed To Respond To Their Advances.

As A Precocious Teen I Dreamed Of Being Graham Greene. Well, As It Turned Out, I Never Wrote A Great Novel, Sadly, And I Never Converted To Catholicism, Happily, But I Did Do One Thing He Did. That Is, In Middle Age I Moved To A Seaside Town And Got Into A Right Barney With The Local Powers-that-be.

Rachel Cusk's Books Are Like Pop-up Volumes For Grown-ups, The Prose Springing Out Of The Page To Bop You Neatly Between The Eyes With Its Insights.

It Is Also Interesting To Note That The Original Supermodels Are Now Making A Comeback After Being Dismissed In The Nineties As Being 'greedy' By A Gaggle Of Male Designers Who Lived Like Sun Kings.