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No Vacancies and Other Stories
No Vacancies and Other Essays tells the story of a childhood home shaped by addiction, secrets, and loss. People say a love for the bottle runs in families, altering the course of people’s lives like a river carving out a valley. In our family, a dark undercurrent ran beneath the floorboards.
This collection traces my childhood in England as the youngest daughter of a historical cartographer. Through darkly funny stories, it explores the hidden lives mapped into the blank spaces of my father’s favorite Ordnance Survey sheet — Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot.”
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