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In the quiet environs of nineteenth‑century England, boy William Bellman accidentally kills a rook with a slingshot—an act that he thinks he can put behind him. Years later, a stranger enters his life and reminds him that rooks—and the memories they carry—do not forget. To protect what little he has left, William strikes a strange bargain with an even stranger partner, and together they establish a business steeped in the macabre. Their partnership, Bellman & Black, hinges on the idea that every cruel act has a consequence, and the past seeps into the present in the most unsettling ways.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Diane Setterfield
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