It's the beginning of the book but the end of her marriage, and her feelings are mixed. I hoped I looked devastated; I hoped I looked lovely though she is sitting alone, with no one to see.
Certainly our narrator, advertising executive Patricia, leaves no subject untouched: she has a lot to offload and she is saying it all.
Feeling herself to blame, Patricia gives herself six months to win Peter back, and seems undeterred by the horrible violence he inflicts on her as they argue, even as she acknowledges that it did something rather permanent to my soul.
She does and doesn't want to move on from Peter. She wants to be a modern woman but hankers after the certainties of the sexist past.
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