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Nathan Filer – The Shock of the Fall (страница 1)

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THE SHOCK OF THE FALL

Nathan Filer

Copyright

The Borough Press

An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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London, SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Nathan Filer 2013

Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2014

Nathan Filer asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007491452

Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007491445

Version: 2015-04-20

For Emily

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

the watching stair

a cloud of smoke

is this question useful?

the magnolia elephant

milestones

the same story

make yourself at home

truth no. 1

truth no. 2

truth no. 3

how best we can support you

clock watching

day 13, for example

*I don’t hear voices

drawing behaviour

writing behaviour

empty dull thud

open wide

sharp scratch

this goodbye, the goodbye

keepsake

Acknowledgements

A Q&A with Nathan Filer

Praise for The Shock of the Fall

About the Author

About the Publisher

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the girl and her doll

I should say that I am not a nice person. Sometimes I try to be, but often I’m not. So when it was my turn to cover my eyes and count to a hundred – I cheated.