Philip Marlowe, the original hard-boiled private eye, returns to walk the mean streets of the American underworld again in these classic novels.

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This text is a collection of stories from Helen Dunmore, ranging from Victorian tragedy to the tale of a dinner-lady's love, from the death of a lighthouse keeper's wife to the birth of babies from the Superstock catalogue.

What Bobby and Sue Martin want more that anything is to have a child of their own. After several failed attempts, they decide to take a restorative camping trip. Their prayers are answered when a filthy, bedraggled child appears near their camp. Unfortunately, his kidnappers follow.

In a semi-fictionalized North London, a group of twenty-something slackers spend their nights walking the roofs of Maida Vale. On one of these walks they see a couple through an open window, a sighting with profound consequences that reverberate through all their lives.

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