Victor didn’t think about how long it would be. Time had slowed, anyway, and the world had contracted, to this bright space, these beloved faces, looking back at him. Now, was the thing. Now.
ALSO BY CHRISTOBEL KENT
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A Note About the Author
Christobel Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four step-siblings, before studying English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and as a TEFL teacher, and has lived in Italy, where she set several previous novels, including The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and five children. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Epilogue
Also by Christobel Kent
A Note About the Author
Copyright
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2017 by Christobel Kent
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Originally published in 2017 by Sphere, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2018
E-book ISBN: 978-0-374-71795-7
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