Paullina Simons

Tully


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      Tully

      Paullina Simons

      

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by Flamingo an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

      Copyright © Paullina Simons 1994

      Cover design by Jane Waterhouse and HarperCollins Design Studio

       Cover image © plainpicture/Boris Leist

      Paullina Simons asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780006490012

      Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780007386864 Version: 2018-05-23

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      To Alla and Yuri Handler,

       my mother and father

      Strait is the gate

       and narrow is the way That leads unto Life And few there be that find it

      St Matthew 7:14

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       SEVEN Jeremy

       EIGHT Hedda Makker

       NINE Robin and Jeremy

       TEN A Postcard from Home

       III The House on Texas Street

       ELEVEN Back Home

       TWELVE Wichita

       THIRTEEN Infancy

       FOURTEEN Lake Vaquero

       FIFTEEN Painting the House

       IV Natalie Anne Makker

       SIXTEEN Jenny October 1986

       SEVENTEEN California

       EIGHTEEN Mother

       NINETEEN Husband and Wife

       TWENTY Tully

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       I Jennifer Lynn Mandolini

      Ah Life,

       I would have been a pleasant thing to have About the house when I was grown If thou hadst left my little joys alone!

      Edna St Vincent Millay

      Mama’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true

       Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you

      Roger Waters