Blackbird. Tom Wright
Also by Tom Wright
What Dies in Summer
BLACKBIRD
TOM
WRIGHT
Published in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2014 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Tom Wright, 2014
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN: 978 1 78211 324 9
Export ISBN: 978 1 78211 355 3
ePub ISBN 978 1 78211 326 3
Typeset in Century Oldstyle MT by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
For my accomplices; you know who you are
Forget then. Forget now. Any story that matters begins and ends everywhere and everywhen.
Tori Ogwyth Marsh
Contents
The broker, the coker, the midnight toker, the woman thought. Confederacy