Allen & Unwin

The Birth: Ennis, County Clare^ Ireland, 1800 C/HE WINTER BEFORE Henrietta Smithson's confinement was the worst in living memory. Ice glazed the streets and doorsteps. The poor locked themselves into cottages with stale bread crumbs, and their body heat nurtured a fever that would spread like...

Jack's dad sat up in bed reading the newspaper. He had a cold, and his tissue box was nearly empty. '"Beach Houses For Sale",' Dad read aloud. 'How would you like to move to a house near the beach. Jack?' He blew his nose. 'Just imaginean early morning swim, watching the sun rise over the sea. Look...

prologue Paige -T" ichoias won't let me into my own house, but I have been I \l ''^^^cbing my family from a distance. So even though I've JL 1 been camping out on the front lawn, I know exactly when Nicholas takes Max into the nursery to change his diaper. The light switches on—it's a little...

PrologueC*ometimes it felt as if he were prowling the roof of heaven, LJ riding high through the night, the stars close above him, nobody about, the teeming masses with their petty concerns tucked safely into their beds. He was as restless as a fox. He seemed to have a channel through life at times...