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First published by Penguin Group USA 2013

First published in the UK by Harper 2015

Copyright © Beatriz Williams

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Source ISBN: 9780008134921

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Version: 2017-07-24

To the victims and survivors of the

great New England hurricane of 1938

And, as always,

to my husband and children

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

“Dover Beach” (1867)

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

1. Route 5, Ten Miles South of Hanover, New Hampshire: October 1931

2. Seaview, Rhode Island: May 1938

3. Hanover, New Hampshire: October 1931

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5. Smith College, Massachusetts: October 1931

6. Seaview, Rhode Island: May 1938

7. Smith College, Massachusetts: Mid-December 1931

8. Seaview, Rhode Island: July 4, 1938

9. 725 Park Avenue, New York City: December 1931

10. Seaview, Rhode Island: July 1938

11. 725 Park Avenue, New York City: New Year’s Eve 1931

12. Seaview, Rhode Island: August 1938

13. Manhattan: New Year’s Eve 1931

14. Seaview, Rhode Island: Labor Day 1938

15. Route 9, New York State: New Year’s Day 1932

16. Manhattan: Tuesday, September 20, 1938