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Sweet adolescence
Thessaloniki, March 1986
Eleni got back to her room after they had shared a wacky omelette, as Leonora had come to call them, not without a pang of considerable satisfaction for having at last found a trick to get Eleni to join them. Eleni was increasingly reluctant to join family meals. Every other day, Leonora would find the wrapping paper of a packet of crisps or chocolate under Eleni’s duvet when tidying up her room after she had refused to eat lunch with them saying that she was not hungry.
Leonora had been discreetly following Eleni for the last month, and the upshot of her observations was not pleasing. One thing she had learnt from medical school, and she had devotedly integrated that knowledge during the years of her psychiatry training, was that observati
