think it’s beautiful. Even the trees starve each other of the light. I’ve always called myself a person who loves nature, but I suppose what I’ve thought of as nature has always been trees, mammals, flowers . . . so much life you can distract yourself from the death.’ Eoin was watching her with a curious expression, but Hannah was in full flow now and her fists were clenched. ‘I think,’ she said, ‘that the sea might be the truer face of nature. It’s where everything came from, after all. The sea never hides what it can do to you, how deep it goes or how far. And every shell on the beach is a
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