TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curnow,Fiona
TI  - Before the swallows come back
SN  - 9780995531499
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - [Publisher not identified]
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Malicious accusation
KW  - Hermits
KW  - Solitude
KW  - Murder
KW  - Families
N2  - Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to the old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all that he knows. Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family they are torn apart. Charlotte is sent far away. Tommy might have done something very bad
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