The Backward Shadow (37 page)
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Authors: Lynne Reid Banks
Darling Father. He knew what he was talking about. He once told me that when he was in the trenches in the First War, he felt sick every time one of his pals killed a rat, although he loathed the things. The other, greater horrors, the human deaths, he could never talk about ⦠His vulnerability punished him all his life.
But I swear I don't know how to blunt that quality in David which I love so much. The trouble is, I simply can't
want
to ⦠Whenever I read that letter of Father's, I can only think desperately to myself: âHe was right about so much. But about this, he's got to be wrong.'
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Copyright © Lynne Reid Banks 1970
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The Backward Shadow
was first published in 1970 by Chatto and Windus
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