First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2020
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Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4711-7849-8
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Excerpt from ‘Funeral Blues’ by W.H. Auden, first published in The Year’s Poetry by The Bodley Head, 1938
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