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Bitters end

by David Owen

Following the death of his fiancée, Raoul flees civilisation to live on a remote, dilapidated property, where his isolation is disrupted by the arrival of Julia, a woman escaping her own secret torment.

Accession 10369 ISBN 0330273914 Publisher Pan Macmillan, Picador
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