SENI GLAISTER worked as a bookseller for much of her career before founding WeFiFo, the social dining platform, in 2016. Her first novel, The Museum of Things Left Behind, was published in 2015. She lives on a farm in West Sussex with her husband and children.
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Ebook Edition © January 2019 ISBN: 9780008285005
For my inspirational and indispensable mother, Penelope Glaister.
And in memory of
Mary Ann Brailsford 1791 – 1852
Marie Ann Smith 1800 – 1870
John Clarke 1889 – 1980
& the other unsung heroes of the orchards and fields.
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