The Distant Summer

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Cranfield Hall sat on the ridge like a broken tooth in the jaw of the plains, its roof tiles cracked by the wind that cut the wheat fields below into furrows of pale gold. The air smelled of liniment and wet stone, a scent that had seeped into the very foundation of the house where I, Alice Cranfield, sat in the damp cellar holding a bird made of white porcelain that hummed with a low, static...

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