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First published in 1998
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2016
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Cover photographs © Athina Strataki/Etsa/Corbis (woman leading a horse); Tom Gardner/Alamy (Dusk on Black Mount, Rannoch Moor, Scotland); WebbTravel/Alamy (view across the heather, Scotland)
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Source ISBN: 9780007288656
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007320950
Version: 2017-09-08
In a symbol lies concealment or revelation.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV Part I
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