The Pride and the Sorrow - publishing a novel by Matt Fullerty ...

Not that Alice put it like this; she would say, with a faint smile, that the adaptation had "skimped on the book's withholdingness", a phrase some found baffling. Jane, for her part, had been second favourite for the Booker with The Primrose Path, .... From her handbag she took a slice of lemon in a plastic box, and a miniature of cognac from the hotel minibar. She liked to play a little unacknowledged game with her publishers: the better her room, the less she pillaged. ...