Luan Goldie

Nightingale Point


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      LUAN GOLDIE is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She has written several short stories and is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her short story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 2018 and the Grazia/Orange First Chapter competition in 2012, and was chosen to take part in the Almasi League, an Arts Council-funded mentorship programme for emerging writers of colour. Nightingale Point is her debut novel.

      Nightingale Point

      Luan Goldie

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      ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES

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      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

      Copyright © Luan Goldie 2019

      Alyson Rudd 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.

      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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      Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780008314460

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      Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

       Title Page

      Note to Readers

       Dedication

       CHAPTER TWELVE: Pamela

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Tristan

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Malachi

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Elvis

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Mary

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Tristan

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Elvis

       CHAPTER NINETEEN: Pamela

       CHAPTER TWENTY: Elvis

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Mary

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Malachi

       CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Mary

       AFTER

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Elvis

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Mary

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Malachi

       TEN DAYS LATER

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Tristan

       CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Mary

       CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Malachi

       CHAPTER THIRTY: Tristan

       CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Malachi

       CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Elvis

       ONE MONTH LATER

       CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Mary

       CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Tristan

       CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Mary

       CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Malachi

       CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Elvis

       THREE MONTHS LATER

       CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Malachi

       CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: