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Excerpt from Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge

Castle of Water

A Novel

by Dane Huckelbridge
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  • Apr 4, 2017, 288 pages
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Crap, as Barry liked to say.

Putain de merde, as Sophie was known to exclaim.

Excerpted from Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge. Copyright © 2017 by Dane Huckelbridge. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Dunne Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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