Kate Grenville Quotes
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.
Grenville, Kate. The Idea of Perfection. Picador, 1999.
He was referring to the fact that some school systems had passed regulations forbidding any physical contact between staff and children, in an effort to deal with the possibility of sexual abuse by teachers and other staff.
Catherine Elizabeth Grenville AO (born 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process. In 2001, she won the Orange Prize for The Idea of Perfection, and in 2006 she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Secret River. The Secret River was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.