Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Last Days of August by John Ronson
This is about a woman who died a few years ago and there is a John Ronson podcast which you may have come across that really, really uncovers this story. And I will finish back with the tattoo sequence, going back to this idea of permanence, which I think is a bit of a preoccupation through the book. My friend says tattoos hide the natural beauty of the naked form. We are swimming at the millpons, he steps into cold water and his skin dissolves. His friend has seen me naked three times. We do not speak of it, whether he found me beautiful in the morning. He said: "I thought of Lucy Pound then contorting
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