I had spent an hour working on the calendar before coming to Granta House that morning.

那天早上，我花了一个小时在日历上工作，然后才来到格兰塔之家。

I had no idea what most of the inhabitants of Granta House thought of me.

我不知道 Granta House 的大多数居民怎么看我。

His fourth book, The Great Mistake (Granta, June), is a sweeping historical novel that is also a gripping mystery.

他的第四本书 The Great Mistake（格兰塔， 六月）是一部包罗万象的历史小说， 同时也是一个扣人心弦的谜团。

If I had thought the events of the previous day would create a thaw back at Granta House, I was wrong.

如果我认为前一天发生的事情会在格兰塔之家解冻，那我就错了。

In all my time at Granta House nobody had ever come to see Will via the back door.

我在 Granta House 的所有时间里，从来没有人从后门来看过 Will。

Part of it was, I worked so many hours that I was never away from Granta House when the shops were open.

部分原因是，我工作了太多时间， 以至于商店开门时我从未离开过 Granta House。

The same, eventually, is true of Gwendoline Riley's My Phantoms (Granta, April), about the relationship between a damaged girl and her appalling parents.

最终，格温多琳·赖利 (Gwendoline Riley) 的《我的幻影》（Granta， 四月）也是如此， 讲述了一个受伤的女孩和她可怕的父母之间的关系。

I stood in the castle car park, making sure I was out of view of Granta House, and dialled my sister's number.

我站在城堡的停车场，确保我不在格兰塔宫的视线范围内， 然后拨通了我姐姐的电话。

A whirl of thick white flakes emerged from an iron-grey infinity, almost obscuring Granta House, blotting out sound, and slowing the world to an unnatural pace.

一团厚厚的白色薄片从铁灰色的无限中升起， 几乎遮蔽了格兰塔之家，遮住了声音， 让世界以一种不自然的速度放慢了速度。

My mother, in particular, asked me daily questions about Granta House and its domestic habits in the manner of a zoologist forensically examining some strange new creature and its habitat.

尤其是我的母亲，每天都以动物学家的方式问我有关 Granta House 及其家庭习性的问题， 他们正在对一些奇怪的新生物及其栖息地进行法医检查。