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4th Estate
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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016
Copyright © Anjali Joseph 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780007462841
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007462827
Version: 2017-05-26
To my parents
The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
Bhagavad Gita, 2.11,
translated by Swami Sivananda
Contents
Chapter 1: A long way from the morning
Chapter 4: A person who could be looked at
Chapter 6: The day and what it wanted
Chapter 8: People want everything to look perfect
Chapter 11: The smell of the ink
Chapter 13: He doesn’t look like his dad
Chapter 16: Autumn couldn’t ever come
Chapter 17: The cars carried on passing
