About the Author
AMANDA HEMINGWAY has already lived through one lifetime—during which she traveled the world and supported herself through a variety of professions, including that of actress, barmaid, garage hand, laboratory assistant, journalist, and model. Her new life is devoted to her writing.
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The Sword of Straw is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2005 by Amanda Hemingway
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hemingway, Amanda.
The sword of straw / Amanda Hemingway. p. cm.
1. Albinos and albinism—Fiction. 2. Gifted children—Fiction. 3. Homeless women—Fiction. 4. Immortalism—Fiction. 5. Villages—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction. 7. Grail—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6058.E49188S95 2005
823'914—dc22 2005048462
www.delreybooks.com
eISBN: 978-0-345-49080-3
v3.0
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Table of Contents
Battle
Prologue: The Dead City
Parents and Children
Magic
An Entanglement of Clues
A Feast of Slugs
Damon
The Love-Spell
The Princess and the Peas
Dancing with Demons
The White Ship
Elemental Powers
Epilogue: Autumn Leaves
About the Author
Also by Amanda Hemingway
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