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Автор Стивен Роули

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The Borough Press

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London SE1 9GF

First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copyright © Steven Rowley 2019

Steven Rowley 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

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: 9780008333249

Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008333256

Version: 2019-03-08

The Editor offers a delightful fictional glimpse of an iconic American family – but it is, at heart, a tribute to every family whose last name isn’t Kennedy’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists

‘At equal turns laugh-out-loud funny and searingly poignant, Rowley has created a truly unforgettable story of a son trying to understand his mother’ Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six

The Editor is an absolute triumph! Rowley is a master of creating characters you fall in love with, and never want to leave’ Julie Klam, author of The Stars In Our Eyes and You Had Me at Woof

The Editor will have you weeping tears of joy when it’s not quietly breaking your heart’ Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding

For my parents

In short, there’s simply not

A more congenial spot

For happily-ever-aftering than here

In Camelot.

Camelot, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Contents

Copyright

Praise for The Editor

The Quarantine: A Novel by James Smale

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Yesterday’s Gone, Yesterday’s Gone: November 1992

Chapter Fifteen