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I could live here, I thought, and turned the car for home. It was the strangest thing, but for the first time in a long time I almost felt serene.

About the Author

Bill Bryson’s acclaimed A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. He is much loved for his bestselling travel books, from The Lost Continent to Notes from a Small Island and Down Under, and he has also written books about language and Shakespeare. His latest bestsellers are a memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and At Home: A Short History of Private Life.

www.billbryson.co.uk

Also by

Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue

Neither Here Nor There

Made in America

Notes from a Small Island

A Walk in the Woods

Notes from a Big Country

Down Under

African Diary

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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First published in Great Britain

in 1989 by Secker & Warburg Ltd

Abacus edition published 1990

Black Swan edition published 1999

Copyright © Bill Bryson 1989

The extract (see here) from ‘Child support’ by Thom Schuyler is printed here by kind permission of Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc., Hollywood, California.

Bill Bryson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

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Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781409095811

ISBN 9780552998086

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