January 24, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Numbers on labels, pinned to the soil. A handful of molars in a plastic bag. The riverine meanders of sutures running across a cranium, joining frontal to parietal bones, temporal to occipital. They are transected by a fracture, leading from a bullet hole. keep reading
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16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival
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2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special
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