To begin, at the beginning...

“Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over hi…”

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corn…”

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I …”

“before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.”