**-**_What were you in life?_ **-** I _n life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster._ The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the pa
Darkness Visible: With an introduction by Philip Hensher
โ Scribed by Golding, William
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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