See How Small. Scott Blackwood

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       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015

      Copyright © Scott Blackwood 2015

      Scott Blackwood asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      Cover photograph © Martin Wimmer/Getty Images

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      This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Source ISBN: 9780007580934

      Ebook Edition © January 2015 ISBN: 9780007580941 Version: 2015-09-16

       Dedication

       For Ava, Ellie & Tommi

       Epigraphs

       The first time I heard the voice I was terrified. It was noon, in summer, in my father’s garden…. I seldom heard the voice when it was not accompanied by a light. Usually it was very bright.

      — JOAN OF ARC, FROM THE TRANSCRIPT OF HER TRIAL

      Thomas Aquinas invented a third order of duration distinct from time and eternity, which he called aevum…. It coexists with temporal events, at the moment of occurrence, being, as was said, like a stick in a river. Aevum, you might say, is the time order of novels.

      — FRANK KERMODE, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

       It shall be called “Bottom’s Dream,” because it hath no bottom.

      — NICK BOTTOM, IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

      A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM