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her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the West Coast of Ireland

travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell - a macabre artefact owned by Dr Wilkinson

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and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America

His once-brilliant plan to pass himself off as Rabbi David Cohen is unraveling

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