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9780718155407
March 19, 2019
Michael Joseph
496 pages
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9780718189020
April 15, 2018
Michael Joseph
320 pages
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9780718178802
April 2, 2018
Michael Joseph
320 pages
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9780241392102
December 3, 2018
Penguin eBooks
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9780141932545
April 5, 2018
Penguin eBooks
Prologue
Then
Mornings like this morning were Iris’s favourite kind. Tom always preferred springtime, when the sun was high, and everything was burgeoning and bursting. Of the two of them, he was the lay- a- bed, groaning with reluctance at the early starts the farm required, and had done since they were small children. But he hated it just a bit less in the spring and summer, as it was light, and there was no chill in the air when you threw back the blanket. Autumn days were Iris’s. It made no difference to her that the tip of her nose was often cold when she woke up, and it was still dark outside. She liked the mists and the nip in the air, the colours of the leaves and the crunch of them under her boots once they’d fallen.
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