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    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

    By Lionel Shriver

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    A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

    In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery.

    Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780008173494
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Lionel Shriver

    Although Lionel Shriver has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, she in no way wishes for the inclusion of this information to imply that she is more “intelligent” or “accomplished” than anyone else. The outdated meritocracy of intellectual achievement has made her a bestselling author multiple times and accorded her awards, including the Orange Prize, but she accepts that all of these accidental accolades are basically meaningless. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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