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    The Country House
    The Country House
    The Country House
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    The Country House

    By Alexis Saints

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    To walk back into one's childhood home is always a strange feling, and Connor is starting to find out: where everything is covered by the thick glaze of honeyed memories, present and past are intertwined together. And the summer in the country house has never been more tender.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexis Saints
    Release dateNov 20, 2023
    ISBN9798215425084
    The Country House
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    Alexis Saints

    Alexis Saints (25 Agosto 1995) nasce a Taranto, in Italia. Inizia a scrivere già da una giovane età, prendendo parte con successo a diversi concorsi e laboratori di scrittura. Nel 2019, si laurea alla facoltà di Lingue, Civiltà e Scienze del Linguaggio presso l'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, e inizia un'attività parallela come traduttrice e interprete. Il suo primo romanzo pubblicato, "Fernik" è il primo di una trilogia fantasy ambientata in Italia, "Storie d'Asèria".

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      The Country House - Alexis Saints

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      The Country House

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      Editing by Carlo Mazzeranghi

      Cover and layout design by Laura Faraci

      I.

      Everything was exactly as it had been.

      Connor sighed in relief as the house stood a little smaller than he used to remember, a little less inconspicuous than it should have been. The sun shone brightly through every crack in the stone walls of the country house.

      He was taller now, and taller meant he could tower through the cramped door and pretend there was nothing scary in how the hinges creaked as he opened it.

      There was no way a grownup would have been afraid of something as innocuous as a house, after all.

      The owners assured him they hadn’t touched anything from the old days; Connor wished they had, as he saw the furniture stacked up against the wall in the same exact way it was when he had run inside and announced to his parents that he wanted to leave that place. His father had looked at him with empty eyes and done nothing else but nod gravely. He did not hesitate, and for that, Connor had always been grateful.

      But he was alone now.

      Connor had assured the owners that it was going to be just a small visit to

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