2020/043: Water Shall Refuse Them -- Lucie McKnight Hardy
2020/043: Water Shall Refuse Them -- Lucie McKnight Hardy
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The relics sat on the mantelpiece in the correct order: Robin’s egg, magpie’s egg, duckling bill and bone. Blackbird’s egg, feathers of wren…and then the space where the incantation should have continued. It niggled at me, the vacuum at the end of the rhyme an itch to be scratched. [loc. 342]
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