The Other Side of the Fall
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It is the summer of Harriet Quinn's graduation and she should be doing something. The only problem being that ‘something’ is an elusive concept. Her general lack of life direction is rapidly becoming a drain on her spirits. And the move back home, with the inevitable dredging up of the past, isn't much of a help either.
Harriet has found herself in a constant trap of the mundane and uneventful. Which only makes it all the more surprising when a complete stranger recognises her face from a dream.
Suddenly she is no longer searching for her 'something' - rather a 'something,' that certainly wasn't her choice, has been dropped unexpectedly from a great height and knocked all sense and realism out of her life.
And that's how she finds herself teetering over the edge of a building ready to make a jump to the streets below. The difference being, Harrie is fairly certain she's not going to die - if the dreams are anything to go by.
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