Lanny by Max Porter

Author:Max Porter [Max Porter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9780571340309
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

Oh god, you horrible crone, you are the worst thing about living here, you are the worst thing about this English village. You are the worst thing about England. And villages. I wish you would die so somebody nice could move in here.

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What if we, the generation of people who remember the war, actually told these frightful, entitled young people that this is a country we fought for, that you cannot simply buy a sense of belonging on your mobile phone. She might have attacked me, yelling Where is Lanny, as if I had him hidden in the larder. I could have phoned the police. Then she wouldn’t come around here banging and shouting about how she’s lost track of her moping little gypsy with his daft hair and strange singing. I’d like to tell her about the real community around here, a community that is dead and gone thanks to people like her, buying up the houses and putting in ridiculous open kitchens and glass walls. Of course it is arch-lunacy to expect this young girl with a made-up name to understand any of this, she may as well be a bloody foreigner. I worry about the impact on the community. I worry about standards slipping. I worry about this country. I wish she would get bored and let somebody decent move in.

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