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Forty Years For A Shadow

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Forty Years For A Shadow is a novel in English. Chapter 1 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

For forty years of marriage, Rob has never let his wife Ellie want for anything, and even now, with children and grandchildren around the table, he still sets the tenderest piece of fish in her bowl. She believes this is what growing old together looks like — until she goes down to the basement and accidentally knocks over a heavy clay jar of aged Port that he had sealed and hidden away for another woman. He bursts in, his hands close around her throat, and he locks her inside the cold, damp cellar to reflect.

Ellie has just had triple-bypass surgery. The iron door will not budge, the old bulb will not light, and the signal on her phone flickers at a single bar. Her call to her son Owen connects, but static swallows her voice, and Rob calmly tells him she is sleeping. Her text fails to send, the battery dies, and the darkness closes in.

Then a knock comes at the study door: Patricia, her neighbor and bridge partner, has arrived with lasagna for the invalid. Rob stands in the doorway, blocking her from entering, and insists Ellie is asleep.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

In the forty years we were married, he never let me suffer a moment of hardship.

Even now, with children and grandchildren filling our home, he still reached across the dinner table to place the tenderest cut of the fish fillet into my bowl.

I thought this was the definition of growing old together.

That illusion shattered the day I went down to the basement to look for old things.

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Contents

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Which chapters of Forty Years For A Shadow are free?

Chapter 1 is free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 2 the book continues in the official app.

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What is Forty Years For A Shadow about?

For forty years of marriage, Rob has never let his wife Ellie want for anything, and even now, with children and grandchildren around the table, he still sets the tenderest piece of fish in her bowl. She believes this is what growing old together looks like — until she goes down to the basement and accidentally knocks over a heavy clay jar of aged Port that he had sealed and hidden away for another woman. He bursts in, his hands close around her throat, and he locks her inside the cold, damp cellar to reflect.

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