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Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a child she fell into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine - and her hair turned white. Initially she was treated with sympathy, but that all changed a few days later, when the young man who pushed her in died...

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When Mary Miller was ten years old and not yet a witch, and Carsden was still a thriving mining village, she would watch her brother Tom playing football in the park with his friends.

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  1. Ian Rankin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Orion Press
Country: Scotland
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0752873091
Page Count: 251

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