The Twelve-Mile Straight. Eleanor Henderson

      

      

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      First published in the United States by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, in 2017

      This eBook edition published in 2017

      Copyright © 2017 by Eleanor Henderson

      Eleanor Henderson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, for reprinted excerpts here of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s November 28, 1930, Warm Springs, Georgia, radio address, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msf00416.

      This is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it either are the work of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008158682

      Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780008158712

      Version: 2018-06-04

       Dedication

       For my father, Billy

       Epigraph

      And the children struggled within her; and she said, If it be so,

      why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

      And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb.

      —GENESIS 25:22–23

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Part I

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       Sixteen

       Part II

       Seventeen

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       Twenty

       Twenty-One

       Twenty-Two

       Twenty-Three

       Part III

       Twenty-Four

       Twenty-Five

       Twenty-Six

       Twenty-Seven

       Twenty-Eight

       Twenty-Nine