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This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

This Must Be the Place

A novel

by Maggie O'Farrell
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  • Jul 19, 2016, 400 pages
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  • May 2017, 400 pages
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"'Gun,' Daddy. Say 'gun.'"

"—a gun, without telling me? Without discussing it with me? Don't you see how dangerous that is? What if one of the children—"

My wife turns, her hem swishing through the wet grass. "Isn't it nearly time to leave for your train?"

Excerpted from This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell. Copyright © 2016 by Maggie O'Farrell. Excerpted by permission of Knopf. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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