March tumbled into April tumbled into May tumbled into June and she and Shaun became closer and closer and their lives became more and more intertwined and then Sophie met Shaun’s twins, who let her put them to bed and read them stories and comb their hair and then it was the summer holidays and she and Shaun started to spend even more time together, and then one night, drinking cocktails on a roof terrace overlooking the Thames, Shaun said, ‘Come with me. Come with me to Maypole House.
-- Narrator (chapter 2)

Importance: This long sentence summarizes Sophie’s recent experiences, giving us background information about her in a condensed form, while conveying her sense of how fast the time went by. Jewell truncates the sentence, omitting conjunctions so that the words seem to tumble into each other, just like the months. The sparse punctuation and the repetition (“closer and closer,” “more and...