Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.

In fact nobody knew what Jess wanted, least of all herself. She just kind of drifted round the place. She'd always been a Dolly Daydream, as Mother called her[…], and she seemed to have even less backbone than me.

A method cleverly adopted by airlines to attract customers is to incentify the travel agent by offering generous override commissions in exchange for steering passengers towards their carrier.

the murmurless woods