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There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

Maria McCann

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Maria McCann

Maria McCann

Born: 1956 (age 69)
Bio: Maria McCann is an English novelist. She was born in Liverpool in 1956 and worked as a lecturer in English at Strode College, Street, Somerset since 1985, until starting work with Arden.
Known for:
  1. As Meat Loves Salt (2001)
  2. The Wilding (2010)
  3. Ace, King, Knave (2013)

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