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First published by Penguin Books in 2021

Copyright © Matthew Frank, 2021

Epigraph quotation ‘Lineage’, from Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes © 1970, reproduced by kind permission of Faber and Faber.

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Cover photograph © John Cooper/Arcangel images

ISBN: 978-1-405-93075-8

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