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This is an uncorrected proof copy of the trade paperback edition which was published in 2005. “They move to the rear of the car and place hands on the boot and on ‘three’ push it forwards, gathering speed, it lurching and creaking over the uneven ground. It accelerates away from them and they let it go and stand shoulder to shoulder panting as they watch it bump over the earth down the sloping field and then appear to leap off the steep bank, airborne it is for a second or two no wheel on the lumpy earth. Then the splash, the surprisingly quiet, surprisingly deep in pitch. Then the vanishing roof, sinking beneath the water, and one more small surge, rise as the tidal river buys it and it surfaces and blows steam like a grampus or a manatee, riparian cetacean sounds only once then gone.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH