The Wave
VIRGINIA MOFFATT
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First published in Great Britain by Killer Reads 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008340742
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Version 2019-05-12
In loving memory of Pip O’Neill, and my parents,
Ann and Joseph Moffatt, who taught me
how to face the wave.
‘Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note may yet be done.’
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Ulysses
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