Absence PG25 the Famine

the Famine

a story that haunts you' HEATHER CRITCHLOW 'Intriguing

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Absence PG25 the FamineA child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman who lays the table for a son she knows will never return home; a young man shunned by his family, who finds solace and freedom in the