The House at the Edge of the World (32 page)

I owe thanks to readers of early stages of
this book for their insight and encouragement: Katie Burns, Leo Klein, Ralph Rochester,
Sophie Rochester, Sibylle Sänger, Lydia Slater and, especially, Martin Toseland, who can
always be relied upon to re-orient me when my writing goes astray. I am indebted to Kate
Rochester, for bringing her book-binding expertise to the manuscript, and to Peter
Moffat for drawing my attention to Robert Frost’s poem ‘Neither Out Far Nor
In Deep’.

Thanks also to my agent, the unstoppable
Karolina Sutton, and to Norah Perkins at Curtis Brown; to my deft and tactful editor,
Mary Mount; and to Hazel Orme for her incisive copyedit.

For everything else that matters, I thank
Scott and Inês.

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First published 2015

Text copyright © Julia Rochester, 2015

Cover art by Mark Hearld

The moral right of the author has been
asserted

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reproduce
lines from ‘Neither Out Far Nor In Deep’ and ‘Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening’ from
The Poetry of Robert
Frost
by Robert Frost, published by Jonathan Cape, reprinted by
permission of The Random House Group Limited

ISBN: 978-0-241-97170-3