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Book Review: At Home – A Short History of Private Life

‘It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before…’

‘The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers...’

‘Comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love…’

‘Great events turn on small hinges…’

‘Gladiators needed to happen to Saturday night television in the same way punk needed to happen to music in the late ’70s…’

‘Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do…’

‘You have only one life, make the most of it…’

‘Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest...’

‘But with great attachment comes the pain of great loss…’

‘People fall so in love with their pain…’