Winter Doves: A Love StoryTogether, Walter and June, a bitter, attractive, and corrosively articulate short-stay patient recovering from a suicide attempt, escape from the mental hospital and strike out on their own. |
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... round under her chin , where he gently rubbed the backs of his fingers . It was one of his more irritating displays of affection , this tracing of her profile , since he knew , if he stopped to remember , that her profile was the ...
... round under her chin , where he gently rubbed the backs of his fingers . It was one of his more irritating displays of affection , this tracing of her profile , since he knew , if he stopped to remember , that her profile was the ...
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... round his shoulder while he slept . That was the nearest Walter had ever come to dancing , and the memory of it made him want to laugh and cry , both at the same time . Jean would be almost sixty by now , and would never know what had ...
... round his shoulder while he slept . That was the nearest Walter had ever come to dancing , and the memory of it made him want to laugh and cry , both at the same time . Jean would be almost sixty by now , and would never know what had ...
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... round and round in ever decreasing circles with one hand , then revving up and speeding towards the Bookstall , only to swerve aside at the last moment and skim past a notice warning passengers not to feed the pigeons , the large ...
... round and round in ever decreasing circles with one hand , then revving up and speeding towards the Bookstall , only to swerve aside at the last moment and skim past a notice warning passengers not to feed the pigeons , the large ...
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asked Baby John Baby Unit bricks buttons carrier bags clean Clifford Clive coffee cold colour conkers curtain dance door Earls Court eyes face feel feet felt fingers flat cap floor floorwalkers Gate Gracie Fields Graham Gunnersbury Park hair hand head holding Hospital hub of Empire inside Jesus Jesus's Mistakes June's laughed leaned Leicester Square light listening mind Mother and Baby mouth moved never night noise noticed nurses once opened patients pigeons pills plastic pull remembered Rita Rita's Robin Christopher round scream seemed seen Senior Adviser shook shouted side sitting sleep slowly smiled someone sound speak Squatters standing stared stood stopped sure talk tell thought told turned Turnham Green voice waited walk walkie-talkie wall Walter and June Walter knew Walter looked Walter smiled watched Waterloo Station window woman Woolworth's words young