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But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoore writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.\u003c\/em\u003e – Elizabeth Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation.\u003c\/em\u003e – New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Moore publishes so rarely is a gift in itself, because it compels you to read her over and over. . . 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In \u003cem\u003eThe Juniper Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' in a kind of nightmare reunion. 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