‘Are you near the sea?’ ‘No. Just the river.’ ‘But rivers aren't the same as the sea, are they?’ ‘No. Not a bit the same.’ Loveday fell silent, thinking about this, digging her chin into her knees. ‘I don't think I could live away from the sea.’ ‘It's not so bad.’ ‘It's worse than bad. It's torture.’ He smiled. ‘As bad as that?’ ‘Yes. And I know because when I was about twelve I was sent off to boarding-school in Hampshire, and I nearly expired. It was all wrong. I felt like an alien. Everything was the wrong shape, the houses and the hedges and even the sky. I always felt the sky was sitting
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