Although Voigt's characters grow and learn over the course of the novel, the ending does not provide any definite resolutions or total closure.

Since 2000, total closure of the line has been threatened several times, although in 2002 freight traffic was temporarily resumed on a small scale.

The official Soviet policy of total closure has persisted until recent months.

What we weren't prepared for was their total closure.

They've had No. 10 Downing Street under total closure for years.

In 1981, passenger services to Hohenlohe were closed in 1991, and this was followed by total closure of the line.

The additional $300 million would provide the company with total closure.

Recently, the gallery was under the threat of total closure as the centre had lost its local funding.

Freight traffic from Fittleworth ceased in 1963 three years before total closure in 1966.

Robinson has stated that one of the reasons he wrote the novel was to get "total closure" of the character.