“She died.”
She died, but Stay in the world, Aud, she’d said. Stay alive inside. Promise me. I closed my fist around the spinning penny. Just a coin. The world fractured; meltwater ran down my face.
About the Author
NICOLA GRIFFITH is a native of Leeds, England. At eighteen she moved to Hull, where she taught women’s self-defense—to groups as diverse as the Equal Opportunities Training Unit and the Union of Catholic Mothers. She was also the lead singer/songwriter for the all-woman band, Jane’s Plane. She is the author of Ammonite and Slow River, and the editor of the Bending the Landscape series. Ms Griffith currently lives in Seattle with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge. Her homepage may be found at http://www.nicolagriffith.com.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Jan Berg, Eddie Hall, Holly Wade Matter, Mark Tiedemann, Cindy Ward, and my editors, Jennifer Hershey and Charlotte Abbott, who each in their own way helped make this a better book; my agent, Shawna McCarthy; and Dave Slusher, webmaster extraordinaire.
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Copyright
THE BLUE PLACE.
Copyright © 1998
by Nicola Griffith.
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