This extract is taken from Keith Gray's novel, The Chain. The extract deals with a young girl who gets engrossed in reading from a book to her father, who is dying in hospital. She is discovering the inner joy and power of books.
When her father dies she wonders what to do with the book that bound them so closely together in his last days.
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