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Orchards of Battenwick

Tenth-Anniversary Clothbound Edition

In a walled parish garden after a long summer drought, an archivist hired to catalog a family library uncovers an annotation trail linking two rival translators.

"An assured debut reissued in a cloth edition worthy of its quiet precision."

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Chapter One — The Walled Library

The quince trees grew close enough to the library casements that by late September the room smelled faintly of warm peel and dry ledger glue.

On the third shelf from the floor, every volume of natural history carried the same pencil mark in the outer margin: two vertical strokes whenever the author mentioned rain.

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