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      To the memory of

      Alfred Thomas Clark 1890–1918

       Ernest Ophir Clark 1896–1916

       And Jemima Clark 1863–1944 who must have been so brave

      Contents

      Edward

      Edward and Lily

      Part One: Summer’s Lease

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Edward and Lily

      Part Two: Spring Fever

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      Edward and Lily

      Part Three: Summer’s Promise

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Chapter Thirty

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Chapter Thirty-Two

      Edward and Lily

      Chapter Thirty-Three

      Chapter Thirty-Four

      Chapter Thirty-Five

      Chapter Thirty-Six

      Epilogue

      Edward

      Edward

      Flower Meanings

      Acknowledgements

      Edward

      Edward dreams of Lily. She comes to him in the garden, holding a bunch of pansies. It is summer and she wears a sun hat, which falls down her back.

      ‘Here, for you,’ she proffers, ‘to ease your heart.’ She laughs, and her long, dark curls fly loose down her back in the summer breeze. It is always summer, with the Lily of his dreams.

      He reaches out to touch her, to feel her, to know that she is once more real and dear to him, as she ever was. As he does so, she scatters petals to the wind, and her touch on his hand is as light and insubstantial as the breeze. As soon as he grasps her, she is gone away from him, to a place he knows he cannot reach.

      Edward dreams of Lily, and awakes to a cold hearth, a lonely old age and tears forming on his face. One day soon, he knows he will join her. Why can’t it be today?

      Edward and Lily

      1890–1892

      In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love …

      Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Locksley Hall’

      ‘Edward, you never said you were coming!’ His mother rose to greet him as Edward came into the garden; she was sitting СКАЧАТЬ