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    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

    By Lionel Shriver

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    A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

    In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery.

    Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780008173494
    The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    Author

    Lionel Shriver

    Although Lionel Shriver has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, she in no way wishes for the inclusion of this information to imply that she is more “intelligent” or “accomplished” than anyone else. The outdated meritocracy of intellectual achievement has made her a bestselling author multiple times and accorded her awards, including the Orange Prize, but she accepts that all of these accidental accolades are basically meaningless. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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      The Self-Seeding Sycamore - Lionel Shriver

      The Self-Seeding Sycamore

      Lionel Shriver

      Logo Missing

      A short story from the collection

      Reader,

      I Married Him:

      Stories inspired

      by

      Jane Eyre

      edited by

      Tracy Chevalier

      Copyright

      Published by The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

      The Self-Seeding Sycamore © Lionel Shriver 2016

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008150594

      Ebook Edition © April 2016 ISBN: 9780008173494

      Version: 2016-03-16

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Foreword by Tracy Chevalier

      The Self-Seeding Sycamore – Lionel Shriver

      Author Note

      A Note on Charlotte Brontë

      About the Publisher

      FOREWORD BY

      TRACY CHEVALIER

      Why is Charlotte Brontë’s Reader, I married him one of the most famous lines in literature? Why do we remember it and quote it so much?

      Jane Eyre is poor, obscure, plain, and little, with no family and no prospects; the embodiment of the underdog who ultimately

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