The Distant Hours

a book that would change my world. A novel written by the very gentleman to whom she’d been evacuated during the Second World W

童书礼物接上疏散史，plot 88。

She laughs very loudly, like a bottle that’s been shaken then opened, bubbles exploding everywhere

一声笑立 Juniper，cast 87。

which is how, at the age of thirty, I came to be a single woman living with my parents

当下生活慢推入局，pace 86。

Listen! The trees of the deep, dark wood, shivering and jittering their leaves like papery hulls of beaten silver

听觉哥特开篇，prose 89。

I thought it was a graveyard for children, but Juniper told me they were pets.

城堡地志带怪诞温情，world 92。

It is moonless when the Mud Man comes.

一禁令即钩，hook 93。

Juniper suggested that I write about my life… Hers, she says, was acquired from books.

书写指令套进叙事，innov 86。

The door closes behind her, leaving the ghostly lovers alone once more in the quiet and the warm.

暖屋幽灵作温柔收束，ending 90。