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In paperback

Watch for brilliant uses of repetition — the slipperiness of meaning

and the supernatural

the world will end

Palm House ages 0-3 Then he hears of aFrom the author of My Phantoms and First Love, a droll and quietly evocative novel about work, friendship, family, and the pathso often muddledtoward finding ones place in life. Laura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, wherethey share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world.