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Olivia Davis

Fiction

Winter 1967

Loss and Chaos

By Olivia Davis

After the train journey there was the ship. To William, only confusion lay in between, though later he was to remember vaguely the enormous piles of luggage in the customs […]

Fiction

Autumn 1965

Sappho in Wales

By Olivia Davis

On the mountainside, toward the bald and stony summit, was Hilliard’s house, with a view of the sea. A quarter of a mile away, along a rough track and a […]

Fiction

Summer 1966

Briholme in Winter

By Olivia Davis

A long time afterward they found themselves staying at the hotel where they had spent their honeymoon, and at the same time of year, in the dead days between Christmas […]