Excerpt from Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Sandy straightened. The spot on his trousers was brown, not red as he would have thought. His mother would know he’d touched the glass.

He took his coat from its peg near the door. Joyce would know how to get rid of the spot. He ran out the back door, across the new snow, down the hill to the school.

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