This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson

Author:Rupert Thomson [Rupert Thomson,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, General
ISBN: 9781847082800
Google: t7596hrOmocC
Publisher: Granta Publications
Published: 2010-04-01T21:16:09+00:00

No sex, the doctor told me, peering at me sternly, not until I have completed my course of antibiotics, but I am sharing a single bed with Hanne, and it’s proving something of a torture. On our fourth night, as we lie side by side in the half-dark, Hanne asks if I’m awake. I say I am.

‘Maybe tomorrow,’ she says, ‘we can try with coats …’

‘Coats?’ I seem to glimpse Dad’s sheepskin hanging on a hook by the front door.

‘Yes. Coats.’

I watch as her eyes travel down the bed, then up again.

‘Oh, coats.’ I start laughing.

The following day, I drive down to Boots the chemist. As I approach the display of condoms, it’s all I can do not to pretend to be German. ‘Please,’ I very nearly say, in an accent resembling Hanne’s, ‘but do you have some coats?’

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