The Farm by the Lake

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This novel contains approximately 88,000 words which, in order to save paper, have been compressed within 226 pages There are many more words on each page than would he desirable in normal times margins have been reduced and no space has been wasted between chapters. The length of the average novel is between 70,000 and 90,000 words which, ordinarily, make a book between 228 and 320 pages This novel would ordinarily make a book of about 320 pages.

THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORISED ECONOMY STANDARDS

Lucky ones strolling Morecambe front often pointed north over the silver-blue water to the smudge fifteen miles away and described it pityingly as Barrow.

“Fancy living all your life under that . . .!”

Fortunately, those who had to live beneath the cloud were not aware of their awful fate. To them the soiled air was natural; and when any had the good chance to get away to Grange over Sands, or even five miles down coast to Aldingham, or a little farther to Baytree, they never thought that daytime at Barrow should be just as bright; they accepted the sparkle and beautiful white light as somehow due to the sea’s magic.

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