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LUAN GOLDIE is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She has written several short stories and is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her short story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 2018 and the Grazia/Orange First Chapter competition in 2012, and was chosen to take part in the Almasi League, an Arts Council-funded mentorship programme for emerging writers of colour. Nightingale Point is her debut novel.
Nightingale Point
Luan Goldie
ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019
Copyright © Luan Goldie 2019
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Contents
Note to Readers
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Tristan
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Malachi
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Elvis
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Mary
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Tristan
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Elvis
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Pamela
CHAPTER TWENTY: Elvis
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Mary
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Malachi
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Mary
AFTER
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Elvis
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Mary
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Malachi
TEN DAYS LATER
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Tristan
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Mary
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Malachi
CHAPTER THIRTY: Tristan
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Malachi
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Elvis
ONE MONTH LATER
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Mary
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Tristan
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Mary
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Malachi
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Elvis
THREE MONTHS LATER
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Malachi
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: