Butterfly's Shadow - Lee Langley [0]
Butterfly’s Shadow
Chatto & Windus
LONDON
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Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
By the Same Author
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Part Two
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
Part Three
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Part Four
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Part Five
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
To Neil Vickers
The past is never dead, it’s not even past.
William Faulkner
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Only Person
Sunday Girl
From the Broken Tree
The Dying Art
Changes of Address
Persistent Rumours
A House in Pondicherry
False Pretences
Distant Music
A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire
Nagasaki 1925
From the window Cho-Cho saw the rickshaw come to a stop at the bottom of the slope. Watched them climb out and start walking up towards the house, he in his white uniform, buttons catching the sun; she, yellow-haired, in a short dress printed with green leaves. They looked like an illustration in one of the foreign magazines she had seen: a perfect American couple.
At one point, when the blonde woman stumbled slightly in her unsuitable high heels he took her arm, but she disengaged, and continued to walk up the hill, unaided.
Kneeling by the low table the child was trying to master his new wooden spinning top, throwing it on to the lacquered surface to set the