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    The Long Shadow
    The Long Shadow
    The Long Shadow
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    The Long Shadow

    By A. F. McKeating

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    Audrey's lifelong haunting by a mysterious shapeless shadow is revealed after her death as her cousin reads her diary entries.

    First appearing to her during her childhood, it became her lifelong companion, but only she could see it. Was it a sign haunting arising from things past, or a shadowy warning of what was to come?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA. F. McKeating
    Release dateAug 22, 2011
    ISBN9781465978202
    The Long Shadow
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    A. F. McKeating

    A. F. McKeating lives and writes in the UK. She has published several novels and short stories. She writes for children as Alison McKeating.

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      The Long Shadow - A. F. McKeating

      THE LONG SHADOW

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      A. F. McKeating

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      The Long Shadow

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      Other Books by A. F. McKeating

      THE LONG SHADOW

      I never liked my cousin Audrey much. Not that I told the solicitor that when she asked how things were going. I just made some bland comment about it all taking more time than I had expected.

      Stepping into the house from the early February sunshine that morning, I felt unaccountably nervous. As I stood there on the polished parquet floor of the hallway, my eye fell on a bowl of potpourri, slowly gathering dust. Audrey wouldn't have liked that, I thought with a small spiteful smile.

      I tried to remind myself that I didn't have any real basis for disliking her. She hadn't been offensive or openly rude to me in any particular way, but she was always so self-contained, so stand-offish, even when we were children.

      Go and play with Audrey, my mother would say with a gentle push whenever we were thrown together at family gatherings. You'll have fun.

      We never did, though. She continually rejected my attempts to be friendly and looked as though she was above humouring a kid who was a couple of years her

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