Reservoir 13: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD. Jon McGregor

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       Copyright

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      This eBook first published by 4th Estate in 2017

      Copyright © 2017 Jon McGregor

      Cover photographs © Shutterstock

      Photograph © Sandra Salvas

      Extract from ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stephens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd. All rights reserved.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008204853

      Ebook Edition © April 2017 ISBN: 9780008204877

      Version: 2018-05-01

       Epigraph

      The river is moving.

      The blackbird must be flying.

      – Wallace Stevens

       Dedication

       i.m.

      Alistair McGregor

      1945–2015

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       Dedication

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       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Jon McGregor

       About the Publisher

       1.

      They gathered at the car park in the hour before dawn and waited to be told what to do. It was cold and there was little conversation. There were questions that weren’t being asked. The missing girl’s name was Rebecca Shaw. When last seen she’d been wearing a white hooded top. A mist hung low across the moor and the ground was frozen hard. They were given instructions and then they moved off, their boots crunching on the stiffened ground and their tracks fading behind them as the heather sprang back into shape. She was five feet tall, with dark-blonde hair. She had been missing for hours. They kept their eyes down and they didn’t speak and they wondered what they might find. The only sounds were footsteps and dogs barking along the road and faintly a helicopter from the reservoirs. The helicopter had been out all night and found nothing, its searchlight skimming across the heather and surging brown streams. Jackson’s sheep had taken the fear and scattered through a broken gate, and he’d been up all hours СКАЧАТЬ