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The opening chapter sets a reflective mood as Rachel takes in a final morning by the river, noticing sounds, weather, light, and details that will never be the same again. It then shifts to a gentle rain scene by an old house, where childhood memories of the landscape and home are contrasted with renovations and cleared gardens, leaving a sense of inevitability and loss.","Also by Helen Walsh  \nBrass  \nOnce Upon A Time In England  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nGO TO SLEEP  \nHELEN WALSH  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis digital edition first published by Canongate in 2011 Copyright © Helen Walsh, 2011 The moral right of the author has been asserted First published in 2011 by Canongate Books, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE  \n[www.canongate.tv](www.canongate.tv)  \nAll characters appearing in this work are fictitious.  \nAny resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library  \nISBN 978 0 85786 005 7  \neISBN 978 0 85786 133 7  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nBefore Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nThe Big Bang Chapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nGo to Sleep Chapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nSix months later Acknowledgements  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Leo, love of my life  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSleep, sleep, happy child. All creation slept and smil’d. Sleep, sleep, happy sleep, While o’er thee thy mother weep.  \nWilliam Blake  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBEFORE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nSo here we are then, finally. Here I am, taking in the slow chug of the river one last time; one last trip as Rachel, as me. Me. Here I am, inhaling the salty, diesel stink, trying to drink it all in and hold it down, each and every nuance of the early morning – the wind turbines, the seagulls, the ferry boat pulling away and, further down the prom, the huddle of school boys hunched over the railings, gazing out cross-river like the menacing mastheads of an armada. I want to commit all of this to memory – every beat, every inflection of the sky and the low silver light on the water.  \nIt will be different, next time I come.  \nThe tide and all its spume and gullies will have moved on to a distant shore. The sky will have shifted, the clouds drifted away. Everything will have changed. And so, too, shall I.  \n* * *  \nA gentle rain. I shelter under the conker tree that bows the sandstone wall of our old house. Before the baby, before all this, I hadn’t much thought of the place in years. Yet I keep coming back, now – back to the river, back for another look at the old wreck; South Lodge. A wreck that, for all its buckled walls and tang of damp, felt loved, lived in; felt like home. But it’s a wreck no longer. The sash windows that gave a glimpse of the water and Snowdonia way beyond, sometimes shaky, sometimes stiff, and the glass my doughty mother would devoutly clean when the mellow light exposed the river ’s streaks and sprays, those old casement windows have been replaced with durable PVC. And the gardens – Dad’s jungle, where we’d plant the seeds and snips he brought back from his travels; that riot of untamed, secret scent and vine, tangle and trunk – it’s all been hacked away now, cut back, managed and manicured by South Lodge’s new owners, whoever they may be. When I first started coming back down here, I half hoped to catch a glimpse of them. Now I’ve lost interest. Some things just are.","cbCaiht793OP7QJ3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiht793OP7QJ3","pdf",1308582,206,"English","en",105,"# Table of Contents\n## Before Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## The Big Bang Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Go to Sleep Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Chapter 38\n## Chapter 39\n## Chapter 40\n## Six months later\n## Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of Go to Sleep?\",\"answer\":\"Go to Sleep is by Helen Walsh.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the setting emphasized at the beginning of the 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