Cassie McCullough

It is pointless to live.

Excuse my accent, Susanna, but my God.

I didn't know where to start.

Tell your father.

Victoria said that if I don't fuck the way she fucked with Enzo, it's pointless for me to live.

Holy mackerel.

That just shocked me.

And then the character Giovanna says, those words of hers I've never been able to erase.

So this is the deep drama at the heart of this.

This is the lying life of adults.

And I think her childhood ended in that moment.

Well, I mean, I think we were talking about fairy tale as well.

There's this sort of cursed talisman of the bracelet.

I mean, this book could have easily have been called The Bracelet, I think.

which is a token of love which has a curious and dubious provenance which we really can't say much about.

But it gets passed between the characters in this novel and each time it does something very, very bad happens.

Yes.

But at the same time, Giovanna is a liar as well.

There is not one character who is not lying their teeth through their teeth.

Yes.