Allie Rogers

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mmer in the 1980s.’

Catherine Hall, author

Such a wonderfully moving and atmospheric novel, full of very real and very touching relationships

bed with clean sheets made of two slabs of marble. On the vertical slab, the name and simple numeric dates are marooned in too much space. No

This is a book about individual struggle that manages to be both life affirming and triumphant.’

PROLOGUE
OCTOBER 1983

lichen-splattered roofs,

pegged in every sky like paper cut-outs;

catch hold of the trailing end of the cry.

Silver set into