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Brian Hall

Brian Hall is the author of The Impossible Country, on former Yugoslavia. His novels include The Saskiad and I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company. ‘I Am Here’ (Granta 55) is taken from Madeleine’s World, a ‘biography’ of his eldest daughter.

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I Am Here

Brian Hall

‘We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as “it”’

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