Barbara Erskine

On the Edge of Darkness


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       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in 1998

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2016

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover photographs © Athina Strataki/Etsa/Corbis (woman leading a horse); Tom Gardner/Alamy (Dusk on Black Mount, Rannoch Moor, Scotland); WebbTravel/Alamy (view across the heather, Scotland)

      Barbara Erskine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of 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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      Source ISBN: 9780007288656

      Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007320950

      Version: 2017-09-08

       Epigraph

      In a symbol lies concealment or revelation.

      THOMAS CARLYLE

      Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

      Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;

       But will they come when you do call for them?

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV Part I

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter Seven

       Part Two: Jane 1945–1960s

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Part Three: Liza1960s–1980s

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Part Four: Beth Early 1990s

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty One

       Chapter Twenty Two

       Chapter Twenty Three

       Chapter Twenty Four

       Author’s Note

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       About the Author

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