"Such were the thoughts of the young Mrs Touchet. Much later, when she was older, she wished she'd voiced them. At the time, four talkative men - two of them jovial, one vampiric, and the last just incredibly loud - were altogether too much for her. They were four sides of a box through which no noise of her own could escape."

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

I’ll try to leave it as just three quotes. I had more though. And I’d made some notes with page numbers that I forgot to finish before I returned the book to the library, so presumably that would have been even more quotes.

Anyway, there was a character that I envisaged as Matt Berry, but I can’t recall who now, perhaps William. And I found it really interesting how it blended fact and fiction and by the end I had to look up whether some bits actually happened or not.