Here was where I wrote my previous book, the New Amsterdam-based novel about a 17th-century serial killer on the loose, The Orphanmaster. Are the walls plaster? Is that a series of framed miniatures hung beside the mantel? Whom do they depict? Outside, on the façade, do you see Georgian brickwork, Tudor stone or simple clapboard? Original Delaware Water Gap site.

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I just realised this is yet another first person narrative. In this tightly written novella a young woman recounts the story of her marital infidelity and the disruptive effect an all encompassing passion has on her life. And then he finished, and shot away.