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  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Praise for Cunning Women
  4. Dedication
  5. An Unfamiliar Pain
  6. Flesh and Blood and Bones
  7. Wet Boots and Fresh Fish
  8. Spires and Beams
  9. Summer Sky
  10. Sound of the Storm
  11. Those That Know Me
  12. Beautiful Wretches
  13. Teeth
  14. Gather and Stalk
  15. Soft-skinned, Soft-hearted
  16. Mice Shaken from a Sack
  17. Otherness
  18. Frost Burn
  19. Maggots
  20. Meddling
  21. A Trail in the Night
  22. Misery
  23. A Serpent, Black and Glistening
  24. Splinter
  25. Whatever I Have Become
  26. Unfurled
  27. Picked Out in Starlight
  28. From First Light
  29. Bees
  30. Bewitched
  31. Infused with Light
  32. The White River
  33. Those Within
  34. Soars too High
  35. Sea and Leather and Fish
  36. Peddled a Dream
  37. Quiver Through my Blood
  38. This Bitter Seed
  39. Blur and Shiver
  40. Wavering Light
  41. Full-Moon Eyes
  42. The Darkness that Broods
  43. Streak of Silt
  44. Turning of the Air
  45. Garlanded with Leaf and Flower
  46. Crisp and Brittle
  47. Trinket
  48. Crescent of the Whole
  49. Sewn
  50. Innocence
  51. Flesh Will Pay
  52. What He Had Seen
  53. Spike of Hope
  54. The Very Brink
  55. Hackles
  56. His Own Hand
  57. Take Any Day
  58. Darkening
  59. Within a Curse’s Reach
  60. The Stars Above
  61. Breadcrumb
  62. See the Storm
  63. What Remains
  64. Acknowledgements
  65. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Huge thanks to everyone at Solihull Writers’ Workshop, who nurtured my fledgling words, especially the Pub Club: Carla, Cheryl, Deb, Den, Pete E, Pete H, Ray and Sarah, for constant talent, wisdom and friendship.

Thank you to Richard Beard, Rena Brannan, Ian Marchant and everyone at the National Academy of Writing, where I learned the art of editing. To Lorraine Blencoe, Sofie Baekdal Brauner and Susan Haniford for years of friendship and inspiration.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the brilliant and generous Marian Keyes, who sponsored my scholarship place on the Curtis Brown Creative course. To Lisa O’Donnell, whose guidance was invaluable, the writers and friends I met on the course, and to everyone at Curtis Brown Creative.

Thank you to the excellent beta readers who helped me make this a better book, Kate Mascarenhas and Laura Tisdall.

I will be forever grateful to the dream team, Lucy Morris and Charlotte Cray, for their wisdom, passion and sheer hard work. I am still pinching myself. To Jodi Fabbri, Sarah Harvey, Luke Speed, Anna Weguelin, Isabelle Ralphs, Natalia Cacciatore, Hope Butler and Kate McQuaid for their enthusiastic support for the book, and to Glenn O’Neill for designing a cover more beautiful than I could have dreamed.

I am so blessed to be part of a big, happy family that find humour in everything and bring so much joy. I’m especially grateful to my late dad for passing his eccentricity on to me, and to my lovely mum who has offered support in every possible way.

Much love to my crazy, clever, compassionate children, Zoë and Ed, who amaze me every day.

And to Pete, whose talent never fails to inspire and whose support never wavers.

Penguin Random House

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

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