Quotes from Faith Martin

It's sometimes hard for people who have wealth and privilege to understand how frightening life can be for those who have neither

perspicacious

went on as if nothing had happened.' She shook her head in wonder, as if unable to believe her memory. 'You were working in reception at the time? You do work at the surgery where Michael Ivers was a

Not quite so fast, sir, if you please,' she said

Brian Herbert, still watching from the back of the boat, felt justified in losing him in the first place. See, he could say, I told you he was like an eel. The sod must be as double-jointed as a bloody snake.

Hillary thought. Someone get me

lemon barley squash.

She loved this city. She just didn't like it much.

Gemma crossed a pair of legs, clad in expensive hosiery

But then, wasn't there always more to any woman than a mere man might think?

food should be enjoyed when at its premium.

abstemiousness

phlegmatically.

Since coming to Kidlington, she'd managed to get on to Hillary's boat, but the search had been disappointing and inconclusive. If her immediate boss knew where her late and unlamented husband had kept his money, it didn't show. And she certainly hadn't spent any of it —it was one of the first things Gemma had checked. Her car was ancient, and her home was still a bloody narrowboat of all things.

This was Oxford, after all

The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.

prevaricating

And Hillary found herself doing something she'd told herself she would never, ever do again. She went, and let herself be held in a man's arms and was comforted.

make the brass look

comes a cropper

come a cropper

She'd quite liked being young and stupid. It beat middle-aged and fairly intelligent. Sometimes.

much older than you knew

That so-called master of hounds was about as much use as a fart in a colander.