Black Lake (25 page)

Authors: Johanna Lane

I would like to acknowledge the support of the Robert T. Jones Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the PEO International Peace Scholarship in the United States for financial assistance with my graduate studies at Columbia.

Sincere thanks to my editor at Little, Brown, New York, Laura Tisdel, for her generous attention to this book; to Reagan Arthur; to Fiona Brown, Jin Yu, and the publicity team; to Betsy Uhrig and Janet Byrne in production; and to jacket designer Kapo Ng. At Headline in London, to my editor, Imogen Taylor, and to Frankie Gray, Frances Gough, and all at Tinder Press.

To my agent, Eleanor Jackson, at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner in New York, I’m beyond grateful.

Love and thanks to the following teachers, colleagues, and friends: Sarah Adams, Silke Aisenbrey, Elisa Albert, Barbara Blatner, Ruth Bowie, Michael Callaghan, Vanessa Carswell, Amit Chaudhuri, Lucy Faulconbridge, John and Sue Hemingway, Joanne Jacobson, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Kerri Majors, Rachel Mesch, Caroline Murnane, Els Quaegebeur, Liesl Schwabe, Fred Sugarman, and Josh Weil. And, from a long time ago, Dorothea Finan, Niall MacMonagle, and Alan Gray.

But most of all, above all, to my husband, Mike.

About the Author

Johanna Lane grew up in Ireland, studied English literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and earned her MFA at Columbia University. She lives in New York City.

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Contents

Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Autumn
1. Chapter 1
The Spring Before
1. Philip
2. John
3. Philip
4. John
5. Philip
6. John
7. Philip
8. John
9. Philip
10. John
11. Philip
Summer
1. Marianne
The Spring After
1. Chapter 2
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Newsletters
Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2014 by Johanna Lane
Cover design by Kapo Ng
Cover photographs by Keiji Iwai / Getty Images (boy in boat); Carlos Hernandez / Getty Images (mountain)
Cover copyright © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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