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  1. Rose Tremain
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  4. Part One
  5. THE RUBY NECKLACE
  6. ONE AFTERNOON AT MRS MORRISSEY’S
  7. THE ANGEL OF THE BATHS
  8. GOLEM
  9. CAPERCAILLIE
  10. RAJAH
  11. A PORTRAIT
  12. ‘THE DESTINY OF THE STOMACH’
  13. ACROBAT
  14. ‘… AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END.’
  15. ‘EYES WITH WHICH TO SEE’
  16. MICROSCOPE
  17. TUMOUR
  18. VANISHING ANGEL
  19. LEON’S NEW IDEA
  20. WHERE THE RED ANTS LED
  21. VALENTINE REVISITED
  22. BELLE ÉPOQUE
  23. MORGUE
  24. THE RIVER TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN
  25. Part Two
  26. ‘SOMEWHERE QUIET AND SOLITARY’
  27. EBB TIDE
  28. SUDDEN MERRIMENT
  29. AFTER THE RAINS
  30. THE GREAT MISTAKE
  31. HEIRLOOM
  32. MAGIC FROM UNDERGROUND
  33. THE RAINSFORD
  34. MIDNIGHT
  35. COMPLICITY
  36. STRANGER
  37. FORGOTTEN STREETS
  38. DARK AND SHINING COLOURS
  39. Part Three
  40. WOMAN IN WHITE
  41. ‘ONLY SUBMIT’
  42. THE HAND OF THE ENGINEER
  43. CAT’S CRADLE
  44. NO NEARER TO CERTAINTY
  45. ANTE-ROOM
  46. THE TREASURE HOUSE
  47. WHAT TAMINAH KNEW
  48. OUT OF REACH
  49. UNCTION UPON WATER
  50. TABLEAU
  51. ‘BRITISH EMPIRE DOCTORS’
  52. A BOUT OF SINGING
  53. DUTTON & CALDECOTT
  54. ‘SHE WAS COMPLETE’
  55. CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
  56. LEON’S PLAN
  57. LILIES AND BRIARS
  58. ‘SOMETHING OF GREAT WEIGHT’
  59. THE WOODEN HOOP
  60. Part Four
  61. A BARGAIN
  62. QUEEN OF THE ISLANDS
  63. VIGIL
  64. A STATE OF MARVELLOUS DREAMING
  65. A MAN WHO DISLIKED RIDDLES
  66. THE WHITE CLOUD
  67. THE GOOD SHEPHERD
  68. THE MIDDLE CHILD
  69. NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN BATH
  70. A STORY OF GOOD AND EVIL
  71. ‘ONE AND THE SAME’
  72. THE WHITE ROAD
  73. SNOWBERRIES
  74. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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First published by Chatto & Windus in 2020

Copyright © Rose Tremain 2020

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Cover details: Mandrinette flowers by Marianne North © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Woman © Science and Society Picture Library; Roman baths at Bath from World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

ISBN: 978-1-473-57379-6

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