On Exmouth beach looking out to where the river meets the English Channel, Peter Riley tells me about the death of his mother. “It was lung cancer. She was a very healthy person; she’d been walking in the Lake District the previous month. Then, over the course of 10 days, I watched her die. I’d never seen a human do that before.” Riley steps over a rusty sewage pipe and stuffs his hands in his pockets. British beaches are perfectly miserable in autumn.
在埃克斯茅斯海灘上，眺望著河流匯入英吉利海峽的地方，彼得•萊利(Peter Riley)向我講述了他母親的去世。「那是肺癌。她一直很健康；就在前一個月，她還在湖區(Lake District)徒步行走。接著，在短短十天時間內，我目睹了她的離世。我以前從未親眼看到過人死去。」萊利踏過一段生鏽的汙水管，將雙手塞進口袋。英國的海灘在秋季格外地淒涼。
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