Why am I always blushing?

Whether she’s lying or laughing or meeting new people, Bella Bathurst can’t help feeling embarrassed. Here she investigates the lengths people go to in order to hide their shameIt was the school leaving party after A Levels, someone’s parents’ house, a warm summer night. Three hours in, we’d finished off the beer and moved on to the stuff at the back of the drinks cabinet. God knows what was in there – Cointreau, Drambuie, WD40 – but so far neither the m