Prospero’s Children

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Jan Siegel. Prospero’s Children

PROSPERO’S CHILDREN

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The Mermaid

The Unicorn

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Voyager

Jan Siegel

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‘Funny thing, what your brother was asking,’ Mrs Wicklow resumed. ‘There was a young woman over from Guisborough, not long before t’ Captain died. Something to do with antiques. They’re all crooks, so I hear. Wanting him to sell stuff, she was. He sent her about her business. Anyway, I was doing t’ drawing room when they came downstairs, and I heard them talking. She was asking about keys.’

Later that afternoon they paid a brief visit to the churchyard, where Ned Capel lay in the lee of a dry stone wall, with the turf plumped up like a pillow over his grave. It was a quiet place hollowed into the hillside, with the petals of a hawthorn drifting across the ground like a spring snowfall. ‘Home is the sailor, home from the sea,’ Fern quoted, and for an instant she felt, irrationally, that she too had come home—home to the grimness of Dale House and the wild country waiting in the wings. ‘Is it supposed to be haunted?’ she asked the vicar, over tea.

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