Got engaged. But suddenly she had realised she didn’t want to marry him.
Deep down, she was scared of becoming her mother. She didn’t want to replicate her parents’ marriage.
Still staring blankly at The Book of Regrets, she wondered if her parents had ever been in love
or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person.
A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped. She had never wanted to play that game.
Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead’.
Maybe that was her problem. Maybe she was just scared of living.
But Bertrand Russell had more marriages and affairs than hot dinners, so perhaps he was no one to give advice.
When her mum died three months before the wedding Nora’s grief was immense.
Though she had suggested that the date should be put back, it somehow never was,
and Nora’s grief fused with depression and anxiety and the feeling that her life was out of her own control.
The wedding seemed such a symptom of this chaotic feeling, that she felt tied to a train track,
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