Quotes 21-30

Question 1

Ruth wannabe

Answer 1

‘The veterans… treated them as a long-established couple, and this seemed to please Ruth no end’

Question 2

Ruth and Kathy friendship

Answer 2

‘Ruth and I would still find ourselves sitting side by side… exchanging our deepest feelings about life’

Question 3

bitchy Ruth

Answer 3

‘’That’s strange, Kathy.’ She fixed me with a concerned look, which made me feel all the more worried’

Question 4

‘generous’ Ruth

Answer 4

‘It seems to me Ruth believed, at some level, she was doing all this on behalf of us all’

Question 5

reflects Ruth and Tommy relationship

Answer 5

‘I actually got to quite like him, but he was pretty much under Chrissie’s influence’ - Rodney (Kathy speaking)

Question 6

Deferrals

Answer 6

‘If you were a boy and a girl, and you were in love with each other, really properly in love… then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you’

Question 7

Traitor

Answer 7

‘’I’ll stay with Kath. If we’re splitting, then I’ll stay with Kath’. Ruth glared at him in fury’

Question 8

Patronising

Answer 8

‘Tommy doesn’t see you like that. He really, really likes you… But I know he doesn’t see you like, you know, a proper girlfriend’

Question 9

lonely

Answer 9

‘Then there’s the solitude… You spend hour after hour, on your own… no one to talk to about your worries’

Question 10

left out

Answer 10

‘She wouldn’t know, would she, Tommy? Not what it’s really like’