A Fever Dream
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England, 20th-century. Days before her wedding Aster escapes busy London, retreating to her grand grandmother's cottage in South England to pick up a traditional wedding dress. In an old chest of drawers, she finds a ticket to the city she's never heard of and a stack of love letters never sent. A ticket, curiously, expires today. What she finds a short train ride away exceeds all of her expectations and makes her finally believe in fairytales.
But nothing is ever permanent in Summer. COMPLETE
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