This Is Not Forgiveness (25 page)

In the little garden next to the bridge, I picked some roses. For her. Red and white and the palest yellow. She said, ‘I don’t do love,’ but I think maybe she did. I let the petals flutter down to spread across the river, mingling with the ashes, to be taken by the restless current, borne away down the stream.

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Copyright © 2012 by Celia Rees

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First published in Great Britain in February 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published in the United States of America in October 2012 by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
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Lines from ‘My Brother’s Vespa’,
Selected Poems
, by Peter Sansom © 2010, published by Carcanet Press

Lines from ‘Pirate Jenny’,
The Threepenny Opera
, by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, translation copyright © 1979 Brecht Heirs, original work entitled
Die Dreigroschenoper
© 1928 Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, renewed 1968 by Helene Brecht-Weigel

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rees, Celia.
This is not forgiveness / by Celia Rees. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In England, a beautiful, manipulative teenaged girl affiliated with a group of political anarchists seduces both seventeen-year-old Jamie and his older brother, a wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
[1. Love—Fiction. 2. Brothers—Fiction. 3. Emotional problems—Fiction. 4. Terrorism—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R25465Th 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2012005204

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