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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018
Copyright © Sally Bayley 2018
Cover photograph © Arcangel Images/Adam Bird
Cover design by Heike Schüssler
Sally Bayley Shipman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780008226855
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008226879
Version: 2018-04-27
Dedication
For Angela Christine Bayley,
Soul of a Rose
Epigraph
‘Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.’
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (English edition, 1952, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr)
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface: The Reader’s Backstory
PART ONE
1 Miss Marple
2 Grandmothers
3 The Village
4 Jane Eyre and Verity
5 Di
6 Behind Closed Doors
7 Poor Sue
8 Rocks from the Sky
9 David Copperfield
10 Peggotty
11 Betsey Trotwood
12 Hand-Me-Down Histories
PART TWO
13 Aunt Jayne
14 The Silver Jubilee
15 The Beach Hotel
16 A Murder is Announced
17 Margaret Thatcher Moves In
18 The Estate
19 A Few Facts
20 Wedgwood in the Front Room
21 Learning to Speak Nicely
22 The Major and His Wife
23 The Body in the Library
24 Bertha
PART THREE
25 On Her Small Brown Wings
26 Expert Opinions
27 Social Workers and Souls
28 A Momentous Interview
29 The Inexorable
30 Colwood
31 An Angry Goblin’s Cell
32 The Story of Sue
33 Crossing the Meadow
34 A Winter’s Tale
35 The Great Gig in the Sky
36 The End
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Credits
Also by Sally Bayley
About the Author
About the Publisher
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