But when you find paperbacks in charity shops they often fall open to those pages…
I still remember the flashback from the couple having an affair * in ‘The Rats’ where a she tied his tie round his testiculls and yanked him round the office. That concerned me quite a bit when I was 12.
* Don’t like to call them characters as they were only in for three pages before getting eaten by rats. Not really a spoiler as 98% of the people in the book get eaten by rats.