To Anna Burkey and Barbara Melville for giving me my first professional opportunities as a writer. To David D. Levine, David J. Schwartz, and the participants of the 2016 and 2017 WisCon writers’ workshops, for offering helpful critique at a crucial time. More broadly, to everyone who has ever given me much-appreciated feedback on my writing: Christos Christodoulopoulos, Laura Gavin, Kit Holland, Peter Kendell, Hazel Lee, Carla Sayer, and Lynette Talbot. Special thanks go to Hannah Little and Ariana Olsen, who have read pretty much every complete manuscript I have ever written, and have been shining lights of encouragement and joy since 2010. Nice Times forever.

To my friends, who have been possibly more excited for me than I even was for myself (special shout-out to Emily Smale for the amazing book cover cake). To my family in Scotland, the United States, and Greece, for their love, enthusiasm, and support.

Finally, with all my love, to Christos, my favorite determinist, who may find some of our arguments echoed in these pages. I’m so glad I exist in the universe where we met. And to Alistair Orpheas, who has only been around for a few months at this writing, but has already been a surprise and a delight I could never have imagined.

About the Author

CATRIONA SILVEY was born in Glasgow and grew up in Scotland and England. After collecting an unreasonable number of degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Chicago, and Edinburgh, she moved back to Cambridge, where she lives with her husband and son. Her short stories have been performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and short-listed for the Bridport Prize.

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE. Copyright © 2021 by Catriona Silvey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition APRIL 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-302022-1

Version 03132021

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-302020-7

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