@2@@20@REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC@21@@3@@2@@20@WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (2011)@21@@3@@2@@20@A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests.@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire...
@2@@18@She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known.@19@@3@@2@Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked...