At the end of the book, she reflects on her writing process and describes "arriving" in this verb form as the key to finally finishing the story: "From the second to the fifteenth of August arriving in the basic form of the verb and using it to write my way out of the labyrinth."...
Just as they declared war on ‘sleaze’ – everything from marital infidelity to queer sex, promising a return to “family values” – a whole crop of MP’s were literally caught with their pants down. One was even found dead with a tangerine in his mouth and wearing 15-denier stockings...