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'Eli was not quite seven years old when he discovered that he was different. One March day, Eli looked into the eyes of his friend Thomas Wilkes and said, oYou are going to die on Tuesday.o And when the following Tuesday, after school, Tommy Wilkes fell from his treehouse and broke his neck it was inevitable that questions were asked . . . ' In this collection of stories, Salley Vickers, master of the uncanny and the unexpected, explores bereavement and betrayal, closely guarded secrets, unforeseen endings and decidedly odd beginnings. From the woman who finds solace in a haunted graveyard to the artist obsessed by a wolf roaming loose in a park, the crown prince who becomes a great playwright to the refugee whose history lies hidden in an old sofa, we enter lives in in which ordinary surfaces conceal dark, and often disturbing, depths.

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Effortlessly conjures surprises, brilliantly realized, pricelessly entertaining * Observer * Tremendous, unsettling, brilliantly creepy * Independent * A compelling and often startling collection of stories. Vickers is a storyteller of note and grace * Daily Express * Tense and mysterious * The Lady *

Effortlessly conjures surprises, brilliantly realized, pricelessly entertaining Observer Tremendous, unsettling, brilliantly creepy Independent A compelling and often startling collection of stories. Vickers is a storyteller of note and grace Daily Express Tense and mysterious The Lady

Tense and mysterious * The Lady * A compelling and often startling collection of stories. Vickers is a storyteller of note and grace * Daily Express * Tremendous, unsettling, brilliantly creepy * Independent * Effortlessly conjures surprises, brilliantly realized, pricelessly entertaining * Observer *

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Salley Vickers is the author of several bestselling novels including Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards. Her most recent books are The Cleaner of Chartres (Viking 2012) and short story collection The Boy Who Could See Death (Viking 2015). She has worked as a cleaner, a dancer, a teacher of children with special needs, a university lecturer and a psychoanalyst.

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