He was seventeen, six two, with blonde, floppy hair, and about eight million quids’ worth of dental work. How to understand the expression "eight million quids' worth of dental work?" Is the author suggesting that "he" has a mouthful of bad teeth that may take eight million pounds to correct, or ...

I sighed and left the den. The way it worked, Ellie had the use of the sitting room down back of the ground floor; no teenager wants to sit with her parents. She’d had a decorater in – it was got up in like a purple-and-black scheme – and she had a really fabulous Eames couch we’d got at auction ...