The Scattering. Kimberly McCreight

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

      HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,

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      Text © Kimberly McCreight 2017

      Cover illustration ©

      Kimberly McCreight asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008115081

      Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008115098

      Version: 2017-06-24

      For every girl who’s been told she’s too sensitive.

      For every woman who’s taught herself not to be.

       EPIGRAPH

      Life is a dream. ’Tis waking that kills us.

      —Virginia Woolf, Orlando

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Acknowledgments

       Read More

       Also by Kimberly McCreight

       About the Publisher

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

      This is a work of fiction. The things that you read here did not happen. At least, not yet.

       PROLOGUE

      I STAND IN THE DARK, barefoot and cold on the edge of the sharp rocks, staring out over the long stretch of black water in front of me. And I wonder if I really can make it all the way to that small light on the dock in the distance. It seems so impossibly far away, the water so frighteningly still like it’s just waiting for someone fool enough to try.

      I am not a very strong swimmer, or not nearly strong enough. I’ve never made it that kind of distance. Not fully clothed, not in the darkness. Across unfamiliar water, with all the tricks a pinprick of light on the horizon can play, who


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