A friend’s hushed recollections trace Nicholas’s childhood in a wind-brushed village where ordinary days tilt, almost imperceptibly, toward the uncanny. Walter de la Mare lets tenderness and dread quietly braid together - until the almond tree’s bloom feels like a secret you’re not sure you want to know.

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