Love in the Time of Fridges

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by Tim Scott


  “‘Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

  “‘Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter of the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people.

  “‘And when your children’s children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land.’”

  And the four of us walked down toward the city.

  about the author

  TIM SCOTT lives in England. He writes for radio and television and won a BAFTA in 2003. This is his second novel.

  also by tim scott

  Outrageous Fortune

  LOVE IN THE TIME OF FRIDGES

  A Bantam Spectra Book/August 2008

  Published by Bantam Dell

  A Division of Random House, Inc.

  New York, New York

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © 2008 by Tim Scott

  Bantam Books and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks and Spectra and the portrayal of a boxed “s” are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Scott, Tim, 1962–

  Love in the time of fridges / Tim Scott.

  p. cm.

  1. Seattle (Wash.)—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3619.C6855L68 2008

  813'.6—dc22

  2008019830

  www.bantamdell.com

  eISBN: 978-0-553-90541-0

  v3.0

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