key moment 10 - sherries farm

being out of the loop made meena feel

“whirling , dizzy, disorientate”

anita revealing a secret

“tapped it slowly against the side of her nose'“

meena feeling betrayed

‘my best friend in all the world really did have a boyfriend and had never told me”

meena’s long sentence abt being betrayed

‘i had fought for this friendship , worries over it made sacrifices for it , measured myself against it , lost myself in it and had little to show for it but this bewildered sense of betrayal”

the slur section

‘p- bashing"‘

‘dead funny’

‘they really did him over’

‘stupid bastard didn’t do nothing back’

polysyndeton

‘we kissed and kissed and kissed with tongues and all’

physiological

‘i remember retching quietly’

taking control for once in her life

‘time rushing past me but this time i was going to catch it up’

pain

‘i was awake for every awful painful moment’

out of control

‘i smelt my own pee’

comfort and familiarity

‘ familiar car engine racing dangerously up the narrow lane’

‘voices i knew so well’

‘meena, beti?’