The Withered Arm

Bookworms Stage 1

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A woman and a man... words of love wispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her... It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of Southern England, has something different about it. Perphaps, it's only a dream, or perphaps it is magic -  akind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms...