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    Asylum

    By Carly Rheilan

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    In whose world could you walk away?

    The child's hand groping out of the earth is undoubtedly real. As real as Cabdi's own hand, when it lay on the earth after the machete fell, long ago.

    But this hand is alive. And it isn't in a war-zone.  It's in the playground of a school, just outside the grounds of the English psychiatric hospital where Cabdi is now held.  And the man who is stamping on the moving hand is a pigeater. 

    Pigeaters are in charge of everything.  As an accidental asylum seeker, Cabdi is friendless in a country he does not know.  He cannot speak English.  But he knows that he should not have gone into the playground.  He should not have seen the hand in the earth.  And whatever lies behind this, it is not his war. 

    He walks away.

    Why should the crime have a witness, anyway?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarly Rheilan
    Release dateJan 14, 2019
    ISBN9781386074687
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    Carly Rheilan

    Carly Rheilan was born in Malta and lives in the UK.  She was educated in Oxford University (which she hated and left) and then at Brunel (a fine small-town technological university where she stayed for a PhD). She is a psychiatric nurse.  She has done research in criminal justice and taught in universities.  She has children of her own and has also fostered two children with mental health problems. She has worked many years in the NHS. Her novels address issues at the edges of psychiatry, crime and personal trauma. Carly Rheilan is a shy person.  If you want an image of her, you could picture her working late into the night in the rain of an English village, in a conservatory full of tropical plants, hunched over a computer and drinking too much coffee.  When not working or writing, she spends time with family, rages against the politics of her unequal country, and battles against acres of nettles in a community garden.

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