8.27am, January 1st, 2024. The first day of a new year hums through the blinds in a rectangle of light in a spare room in a house in North-East London.
We are here staying with friends, as we have for the last few years, give or take a pandemic. All is quiet apart from a bird tweeting the same note at regular lonely intervals, the distant white noise of…
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