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“Come on, you have to let me read it. It’s finished, the editors have it and it’s going to be an absolute smash. Now you can’t expect me to wait until I’m one of the plebs picking it up at Waterstones, right?!”
“Of course not, baby,”
“Oh what a relief!”
“I am going to put a caveat in place, though, you can’t ask me about page 219.”
“That’s cryptic, but okay.”
Nick reads slowly, and I’m not patient, but I see the moment that he gets to the page.
“Char, I’m not asking. Show me the thing on 218+1.”