Sally Bayley

Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books


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       Copyright

      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018

      Copyright © Sally Bayley 2018

      Cover photograph © Arcangel Images/Adam Bird

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler

      Sally Bayley Shipman 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: 9780008226855

      Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008226879

      Version: 2018-04-27

       Dedication

      For Angela Christine Bayley,

      Soul of a Rose

       Epigraph

      ‘Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.’

      Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (English edition, 1952, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr)

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Preface: The Reader’s Backstory

       PART ONE

       1 Miss Marple

       11 Betsey Trotwood

       12 Hand-Me-Down Histories

       PART TWO

       13 Aunt Jayne

       14 The Silver Jubilee

       15 The Beach Hotel

       16 A Murder is Announced

       17 Margaret Thatcher Moves In

       18 The Estate

       19 A Few Facts

       20 Wedgwood in the Front Room

       21 Learning to Speak Nicely

       22 The Major and His Wife

       23 The Body in the Library

       24 Bertha

       PART THREE

       25 On Her Small Brown Wings

       26 Expert Opinions

       27 Social Workers and Souls

       28 A Momentous Interview

       29 The Inexorable