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First published in the United States by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. in 2018

First published in Great Britain by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2018

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Copyright © Iain Reid, 2018

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

HB ISBN: 978-1-4711-7795-8

TPB ISBN: 978-1-4711-7796-5

EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-4711-7797-2

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Jacket photograph of starry sky by Javier Pardina/Stocksy

Photograph of silo in field by Charles Gullung/Offset

Photographs of hay bales and sky © Shutterstock

Author photograph by Lucas Tingle