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The Lost Life PDF

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A story about love, chance and T.S. Eliot from 2008 Miles Franklin Award-winner, Steven Carroll 'This beautiful and poetically attentive novel retrieves a warm, beating heart from Eliot's haunted, stark, magnificent work of art' Australian Literary Review. They may never have a life together, but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England, September 1934. Two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they hide, and then witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties, they have come together again. But Tom is married, and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is it that binds Tom and Emily together? What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows? In the enclosed world of...
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