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lid on the piano’s keyboard. “I’ll enjoy accompa- then the other, washing the blood from its dorsum nying you, Jane.” and the slab beneath it. Then he would comb the
“Well, we’ll try each other out,” said Jane du Lac. ~
hair across the scalp’s incision. Looking then at the dead face you would not know that a post- mortem examination had been carried out.
Gilbert was replacing the calvarium on the empty
skull (after filling it with cotton-waste to absorb
fluids); he pulled back the flap of the scalp to sew Bodley Head in 1983, won The Triple First Award judged by Graham
it in place. He would then fetch a hose to wash
down the body and slab; with practised move-
ments he would lay the body first on one side and Press,Con ngo Publishing, and previously in The Woven Tale Press.
Wheldon was educated at Sidcot and then Bristol, where he studied medicine. He is the author of four novels: The Viaduct, published by The
Greene and William Trevor. This novel was also shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. His other novels are The Course of Instruction, A Vocation, and At the Quay. His short stories have appeared in Nightjar
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