An Attractive Man Monday: Peter Leigh in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things

Monday 3 November 2014

Peter Leigh in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things loc. 514

‘So where’s the dividing line for you?’ the woman rejoined. ‘Dogs? Horses? What if the restaurant was frying live kittens?’

‘Let me ask you a question,’ he said. Are you sending me to a place where people are doing terrible, cruel things to other creatures?’

‘Of course not.’

‘Then why ask me these sorts of questions?’