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Автор: Jules Preston
Издательство: HarperCollins
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href="#u5d5f2b2e-f615-559c-8569-53b6d1da6166">5 things about Daniel’s father

      

       sore feet

      

       seal

      

       more cake

      

       family

      

       gloves

      

       resilient

      

       always

      

       5 things that changed

      

       tie

      

       the Matilda Eastleigh Compatibility Index

      

       maybe ten

      

       merit

      

       dark road

      

       nice

      

       imagine

      

       jazz

      

       waiting

      

       tap water

      

       extra

      

       next?

      

       lawnmower

      

       opening

      

       fault

      

       errands

      

       undone

      

       wanted

      

       the Matilda Eastleigh Compatibility Index

      

       folly

      

       ice cream

      

       couldn’t

      

       sketches

      

       wheelbarrow

      

       ‘Rooks Wood to Coldbank Ruins’

      

       3 miles

      

       full circle

      

       Acknowledgements

      

       About the Author

      

       About HarperImpulse

      

       About the Publisher

      Numbers are a poor measure of love.

      Millicent Fenwick

      Mathematician 1970-

       the beginning

      Violet North could not walk far. She had a pleasing enough disposition and an inquiring mind, but she had lost the use of her legs as a child. Polio was the cause. She was now twenty-six years of age and not expected to marry. She had other complications from her childhood illness that meant she seldom left her home without the help of company. As she was not often seen outside, there were precious few who she could call upon for such assistance.

      Her family had lately abandoned her in a house with several staircases and a large garden in the hope that she would fall and die as quickly and conveniently as possible. They had told her as much when they left. She had been a burden to them for long enough. Violet could not walk far, but she was twenty-six and had her own house with a large garden and decided to be as inconvenient as possible. She did a grand job.

      Violet