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Florence & Giles
John Harding
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.
Blue Door
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First published by Blue Door in 2010
Copyright © John Harding 2010
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Source ISBN: 9780007315031
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2010 ISBN: 9780007315062 Version: 2016-09-15
For Norah
Contents
It was April, I remember, though my spirit was December,
When a broken bird was lifted from the darkness of the lake,
In the sun