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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copyright © Katy Simpson Smith 2014
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Jacket illustration by TK
Katy Simpson Smith asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
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Source ISBN: 9780007564002
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007563999
Version: 2015-06-22
FOR
MY FATHER
There is a land of pure delight
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death like a narrow sea divides
This heavenly land from ours …
But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away …
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.
ISAAC WATTS
Contents
A Conversation with Katy Simpson Smith
