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Автор Judith Mitchell Claire
A Reunion
Judith Claire Mitchell
Fourth Estate
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This EBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015
First published in the United States by HarperCollins Publishers in 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Judith Claire Mitchell
Judith Claire Mitchell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Linda Hogan for permission to reprint, as an epigraph, an excerpt from
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Source ISBN: 9780007594344
Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007594368
Version: 2015-12-07
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
Suddenly all my ancestors are standing beside me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
—LINDA HOGAN,
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Part One: The Ghosts
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part Two: The Reunion
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Part Three: Last Words
December 2010
Author’s Note
Names Mentioned in
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Also by Judith Claire Mitchell
About the Publisher
From a distance the tattoo wrapped around Delph’s calf looks like a serpentine chain, but stand closer and it’s actually sixty-seven tiny letters and symbols that form a sentence—a curse:
