[the notes from the book were retrieved with kobogarden, with the purpose of aiding to create a map of the ideas the book left me. The full list of book highlights can be found here.]

It's much easier to compound writing on notes about non-fiction; as for this, I don't have much to say — I enjoyed it; it has got a very simple style, lots of dialogue, it reads like a comfort meal. It is the first outcome of an attempt at reading more fiction.

‘Without wishing to imply anything,’ he said, turning and looking out of the window with his arms folded, ‘you get to learn a lot about people’s lives when you’re in their houses every day. And the funny thing is,’ he said, ‘that no matter how self-conscious people are at the start, no matter how much they begin by keeping up appearances, after a week or two they forget you’re there, not in the sense that you become invisible – it’s hard to be invisible,’ he said with a smile, ‘when you’re knocking out partitions with a claw hammer – but that they forget you can see and hear them.’