Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel

Author:Hilary Mantel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780007354870
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2010-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Breakfast time again. Sylvia slapped some diet margarine onto a minute square of toast and slowly spread it out. “Do you know what I read? I read that women of my generation had four children because that’s how many the Queen had. Subconsciously, you see, we looked up to her as a role model. What do you think of that?”

“I’ve never heard such a load of tripe,” Colin said.

His wife sat ruminating for a moment; for it was Point 9 of her 12-Point Diet Plan to eat at a leisurely pace and make each mouthful last. “But it might be true, mightn’t it? I mean, a couple of years ago what would Suzanne have done? Straight off for a termination. But now…fertility’s the in thing.”

“I see what you’re driving at. You don’t find Princess Di nipping off to the abortion clinic, do you? You don’t find her popping out for a quick vacuum extraction.”

“Exactly.”

“There could be something in it.” Strange, Colin thought, how the preoccupations of the sane reflect those of the insane. And vice versa, of course.

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