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The Wine of Angels PHIL RICKMAN was born in Lancashire and lives on the Welsh border. He is the author of the Merrily Watkins series, and The Bones of Avalon. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism and writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf for BBC Radio Wales. ALSO BY PHIL RICKMAN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES Midwinter of the Spirit A Crown of Lights The Cure of Souls The Lamp of the Wicked The Prayer of the Night Shepherd The Smile of A Ghost The Remains of An Altar The Fabric of Sin To Dream of the Dead Coming soon ... The Secrets of Pain PHIL RICKMAN The Wine of Angels First published in Great Britain in 1999 by Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd. This paperback edition first published in Great Britain in 2011 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. Copyright © Phil Rickman, 1999. The moral right of Phil Rickman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0-85789-009-2 eISBN: 978-0-85789-016-0 Printed in Great Britain. Corvus An imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd Ormond House 26-27 Boswell Street London WC1N 3JZ www.corvus-books.co.uk Tears are the Wine of Angels ... the best ... to quench the devil’s fires. from a seventeenth-century meditation attributed to Thomas Traherne CONTENTS PROLOGUE Twelfth Night Part One 1 Third Floor 2 Black-eyed Dog 3 Local History 4 Straight Shooter 5 Buds 6 Cold in the House of God 7 Dirty Video 8 The After-hours Social Club 9 A Night in Suicide Orchard 10 Mistress 11 Pious Cow 12 Sympathetic Magic Part Two 13 The Feudalist 14 Grown Women, or What? 15 Hazey Jane 16 Like Lace 17 Whiteout 18 The Little Green Orchard 19 The Nighthouse 20 Hysterical Women 21 Tears 22 I, Merrily ... 23 Black-eyed Dog II 24 Uh-oh ... 25 Carnival 26 The Mondrian Walls Part Three 27 High Flier 28 Our Kind of Record 29 Cogs 30 Affliction 31 Accessory 32 Bastard God 33 Superstitious Crap 34 Demarcation 35 The Little Golden Lights 36 Dancing Gates 37 Wil’s Play 38 Winding Sheet 39 Levels 40 Bad Year for Apples 41 Home Cooking 42 The North Side 43 Meant Part Four 44 Pink Moon 45 The Eternal Bull 46 Pretty Foul 47 False Lover 48 Thank You, Lord 49 Badger Baiting 50 Deep Offence 51 Vision 52 The Loft 53 Watching 54 Way to Blue
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