Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Low life | 20 August 2015

‘How many lovers have you had?’ asked my lover. How do you answer that?

issue 22 August 2015

‘How many people have you slept with in your life, roughly?’ she asked. We were lying in bed in the morning. ‘You go first,’ I said, needing time to think of the right answer. She looked at the ceiling and thought long and hard. ‘About 50,’ she said finally. I asked her about the worst experience.

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