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Published in Great Britain in 2017 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
canongate.co.uk
This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Alan Parks, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 136 5
eISBN 978 1 78689 135 8
Contents
1st January 1973
One
Two
2nd January 1973
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
3rd January 1973
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
4th January 1973
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
5th January 1973
Twenty
6th January 1973
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
7th January 1973
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
8th January 1973
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
9th January 1973
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One
Thirty-Two
Thirty-Three
10th January 1973
Thirty-Four
Thirty-Five
11th January 1973
Thirty-Six
Thirty-Seven
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Nine
Forty
Forty-One
20th January 1973
Forty-Two
Acknowledgements
For my mum and dad
‘For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.’
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