Call of the Curlew

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<p><b>'Unforgettable' - ROSAMUND LUPTON</b></p><p><i>Virginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh.</i></p><p>One snowy New Year's Eve, at the age of eighty-six, Virginia feels the time has finally come.</p><p>New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents at their mysterious house, Salt Winds. Her new home sits on the edge of a vast marsh, a beautiful but dangerous place. War feels far away out here amongst the birds and shifting sands - until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it.</p><p>What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.</p>

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Elizabeth Brooks grew up in Chester, and read Classics at Cambridge. She lives on the Isle of Man with her husband and children.

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