The Earth Hums in B Flat Read online

  Tada and I look at our map. Aunty Lol’s maps are nothing like this one. This map is beautiful, and when Tada works out how to write the Earth’s hum into it, it will be perfect.

  ‘Are you sure you don’t fly, Tada?’ I say.

  ‘Only in my dreams, Gwenni,’ he says.

  But I’m not so sure.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Thank you, above all, to Glenn Strachan, and, for help ranging from expert advice to bad jokes, to: Lindsay Ashford, Heather Beck, Llio Evans, Richard Hollins, Adam Ifans, Rachel Ifans, David Llewelyn, Beverley Naidoo, Gladys Roberts, Orion Roberts, Anya Serota and all the lovely people at Canongate, Cai Strachan, Kate Strachan, Lavinia Trevor, and Barry Williams.

  Table of Contents

  COVER PAGE

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT PAGE

  CONTENTS

  PART ONE

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  PART TWO

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  PART THREE

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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS