The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night

by Jen Campbell

  A Note on the Text

  ‘Margaret and Mary and the End of the World’ contains a few lines from the poems of Christina Rossetti.

  ‘Pebbles’ was first published in New Welsh Review.

  About the Author

  Jen Campbell is an award-winning poet and short story writer. She grew up in a small village by the sea in the north-east of England, and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2016, her poetry collection The Hungry Ghost Festival is published by The Rialto, and her children’s book Franklin’s Flying Bookshop is published by Thames & Hudson. Jen worked as a bookseller for ten years and talks about all things books over at youtube.com/jenvcampbell. She currently lives in London.