The Noise of Time Read online

Elizabeth Wilson is paramount among those who have helped me with this novel. She supplied me with material I would never otherwise have come across, corrected many misapprehensions, and read the typescript. But this is my book not hers; and if you haven’t liked mine, then read hers.

  J. B.

  May 2015

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