The rain in Manchester did not fall; it hovered, a grey curtain that separated the living from the dead. Eleanor Voss arrived on a Tuesday, carrying two trunks and a name that was not entirely true.
She was thirty-two, though she presented herself as thirty-five. The extra years were not wrinkles or silver threads but the quiet accumulation of choices that could not be spoken aloud. In London, she had been someone else. In London, she had been necessary. Here, in this industrial town bordered by smokestacks and memory, she intended to be no one at all. The house she rented stood at the...
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