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Prologue
Acknowledgements
Arthur’s family
Famine
The Palace of Marquis Trecolli
Caterina’s birthday and Baron Lancaster
Prison
Arthur’s painting
The Unicorn
The magical night of AB, aka Arthur Bontempi
Epilogue
About author
When I get home early in the evening and am not travelling for work, something which happens a little too often I have to admit, my three children want me to tell them a story. This is how it works – they all get together in one of their bedrooms and lie on the bed or on the floor. I lie down beside them and we switch off the light. They take it in turns to choose the what the story will be about. For example, we’ve had the dragon and the vacuum cleaner, the pig and the rocket, and zombies in space to name but a few. I take a few seconds to think about it then start talking off the cuff, never quite sure where the story will take me. It evolves by itself. Sometimes it will be a short story, if I’m tired or it’s late. At others it might go on for forty-five minutes or more. It depends on my imagination. I must’ve told about three or four hundred, possibly more, I’m not entirely sure.
One day they came up with the idea that, since some of the stories were quite entertaining, I should write one down. I promised I would.
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The Marquis heard the noise and said:
“Ubaldo, what’s going on over there?”
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