The Reservoir Tapes. Jon McGregor

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       Copyright

      4th Estate

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      Copyright © 2017 Jon McGregor

      Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

      Jon McGregor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This collection is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008235635

      Ebook Edition © December 2017 ISBN: 9780008235642

      Version: 2018-06-26

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       1: Charlotte

       2: Vicky

       3: Deepak

       4: Graham

       5: Liam

       6: Claire

       7: Clive

       8: Martin

       9: Stephanie

       10: Donna

       11: Ian

       12: Irene

       13: Ginny

       14: Jess

       15: Joe

       Acknowledgements

       Also by Jon McGregor

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       1: Charlotte

      Could you

      I’d like to hear about that day, before anything happened.

      Just, from the beginning.

      You’d been staying in the village for how long?

      And you’d come back because the previous visit had gone so well, last summer?

      And you knew the Hunter family. You got on with them.

      So it was an easy decision, to come back for a winter break.

      Was it warm enough, in the cottage? I mean, the weather had been wet.

      It’s quite small, isn’t it, the cottage. Lovely. But small.

      Sorry, barn conversion.

      Had you been on any excursions? Had you gone for any walks?

      So you were maybe starting to feel a bit cooped up.

      Tell me about that morning.

      Did you all have breakfast together? Who was up first?

      This might sound trivial, but what would Becky have had, if she was eating breakfast alone?

      I know

      But these details. They help to build a picture.

      If you could

      Okay. And then did you come downstairs before she finished her breakfast?

      And was that when the idea of going for a walk was discussed?

      It

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