The Sacred River (40 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who helped me with
The Sacred River
. Special thanks to my agent, Ivan Mulcahy; my editor, Jessica Leeke; and Egyptologist Olive Hogg.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

FICTION

The Painted Bridge

NONFICTION

Daughter of Dust:
Growing Up an Outcast in the Desert of Sudan

Oranges and Lemons:
Life in an Inner City Primary School

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

N/A

Wendy Wallace is a writer and award-winning journalist. Her journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers, including the
Times
, the
TES
, the
Guardian
,
and the
Telegraph
. In 2001, she was Education Journalist of the Year. Her book on life in an inner-city school,
Oranges and Lemons
, was published by Routledge in 2005.
Daughter of Dust: Growing Up an Outcast in the Desert of Sudan
was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies published by Methuen and Iron Press. She is also the author of
The Painted Bridge
, a novel set in Victorian London, published by Scribner in 2012 and longlisted for the 2013 Desmond Elliott prize. She lives in London and has two sons.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014001520

ISBN 978-1-4516-5812-5

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Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Seven

Thirty-Eight

Thirty-Nine

Forty

Forty-One

Forty-Two

Forty-Three

Forty-Four

Forty-Five

Forty-Six

Forty-Seven

Forty-Eight

Forty-Nine

Fifty

Fifty-One

Fifty-Two

Fifty-Three

Fifty-Four

Fifty-Five

Fifty-Six

Fifty-Seven

Fifty-Eight

Fifty-Nine

Sixty

Sixty-One

Sixty-Two

Acknowledgments

About the Author