Broken Voices (A Novella). Andrew Taylor
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Название: Broken Voices (A Novella)

Автор: Andrew Taylor

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

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isbn: 9780008179755

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      ANDREW TAYLOR

       Broken Voices

       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Copyright © Andrew Taylor 2016

      Cover design by Dominic Forbes © HarperColl‌insPublishers Ltd 2016

      Andrew Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical fact, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008171230

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2017 ISBN: 9780008179755

      Version: 2017-06-19

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Broken Voices

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

      

       Chapter 7

      

       Chapter 8

      

       Chapter 9

      

       Chapter 10

      

       Chapter 11

      

       Chapter 12

      

       Chapter 13

      

       Chapter 14

      

       Keep reading …

       About the author

       By the same author

       About the Publisher

BROKEN VOICES

       1

      Was there a ghost? Was there, in a manner of speaking, a murder?

      Ask me these questions and I cannot answer a simple yes or no. I did not know at the time and now, more than forty years later, I am even less able to answer them. Perhaps an easier question is this: what exactly do I remember about Faraday and me in the few days we were together? Those years before the war seem so remote now. The First World War, that is, the one that was meant to end them all.

      He and I didn’t know each other long, not properly – four or five days, perhaps. And nights, of course. I suppose there must be records – a report in the local newspaper, surely, and a police file. Perhaps letters from Faraday’s guardian. There must also have been correspondence between the school and my parents, but I found no trace of it after my mother died. We never spoke of it when she was alive, not directly, and my father wasn’t able to speak about anything after they brought him back from France in 1915.

      So – all I can really rely on is my memory. But memory may, paradoxically, make matters worse. It is not a passive record of what happens, though it may misleadingly give that impression. It plays an active role too, selecting and shaping the past. Memory speculates about itself; it ruminates and dreams, edits and deletes: over time, the fruits of these processes become the memories themselves and the entire process begins again.

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