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ISBN: 1 84659 001 9
Publication: 16 February 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 377pp
Price: £7.99

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About the Author
Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She is the author of well-received novels The White Family and The Flood. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.

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More Maggie Gee

More by Maggie Gee, published by our sister company, Saqi Books:

The Flood
The Light Years
The White Family
My Cleaner (Hardback Edition)

By the same author, published by Telegram:

The Blue
Where are the Snows
My Cleaner (Paperback)

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Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Except with this for an overword,
But where are the snows of yester-year?

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Where Are the Snows (1461)
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In the morning I'll have to see us in the mirror, another mirror, another hotel, I'll be fifty-five, he'll be thirty and eager, nothing we've said can be erased, the sun will photograph the skin of my arm, a map of microscopic rifts and valleys, and we'll quarrel mildly and go down to breakfast, an older woman and her sulky young lover...

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