“My parents. They’ve been married thirty years, but my father still discovers things about my mother that shock him.’ ‘Really,’ Thora drawls. ‘Does your mum say the same thing about your dad?’ He looks confused, then wary. ‘Why?’ ‘Because that’s a classic thing men say when they don’t want to engage with women as people. Oh, she’s such a mystery, when she’s been telling you for the past thirty years what she wants and you just haven’t been listening.”