Chapter 47

• The people at this party come not only from all over the country,
• but all over the world. A Greek girl called Aphrodite is teaching a Liverpudlian called Dylan how to say ‘I ’m pregnant with your child’, an American who is, rather fabulously, called Vlad, is standing on a chair having a Cypress Hill song com petition with JimmyJames, and a Canadian guy called Matt asks for my number but then repeatedly calls me Jessica.
• ‘Where do they all come from?’ I say.