The Graces by Laura Eve

Just like everybody else in her small town, River is obsessed with The Graces.

And just like everybody else, she’s been seduced by their wealth, their exclusivity, their beauty and their glamour. Perhaps even their magic.

But, unlike everybody else, River knows exactly what she’s doing – or does she?

"The question I dread most when meeting new people is “Where are you from?” For some reason, possibly to do with being an idiot, I can’t just give one answer. Because it’s a bit complicated. Where are you from – you mean where do I live? Where did I used to live? Out of all the places I’ve lived, which one do I most identify with and thus would feel comfortable about choosing to answer your question? Where am I from ‘genetically’? Where was I born?

‘Idiot’, you’re thinking right now. It’s cool.

I’m both French and British (none of this ‘half’ stuff – I don’t have a half citizenship or half a passport); and I live and work in London. I was born in Paris, but grew up in Cornwall. Sometimes I feel very French. Other times exceedingly British with biscuits on top. Often the proud Cornish part of me rears its affable head. I strongly suspect the British part of me has more than a hint of Scottish.

This is both complicated and pretty damn enjoyable.
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Random Things I Really Like

Terry Pratchett quotes - a mix of the profound and the profoundly witty. e.g.

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

"People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people."

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Characters with questionable morals
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Anything Trent Reznor is remotely involved in even if it only extends to 'he once touched this artist's arm'
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Bad 90s dance music
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Trees"