The Old Beginning | Granta

  • Published: 02/05/2013
  • ISBN: 9781846275241
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The Old Beginning

Jessica Francis Kane

A cat’s innocently cruel game with a mole at a family beach house pushes a cautious married couple towards a potentially devastating confrontation.

The Author

Jessica Francis Kane is the author of Rules for Visiting and The Report (both published by Granta). She is also the author of two story collections, Bending Heaven (Chatto & Windus, 2003) and This Close (Graywolf, 2013). She lives in New York City.

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