“I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappeared completely to occupy the world of whatever book I was reading.”

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The Book of Memory

2016

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

2020

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An elegy for easterly

2009

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Rotten Row

2017

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