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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…’

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

‘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...’

‘This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation…’

‘What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night…’

‘There are thousands of things that can kill us…’

‘The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today…’