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Solace House by Will Maclean

Eight students spend the summer of 1993 emptying a Victorian house in the woods. Its owner lived there alone for sixty years and filled fifty rooms floor to ceiling, leaving two narrow crawl-channels through the rubbish.

Solace House by Will Maclean

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Eight students spend the summer of 1993 emptying a Victorian house in the woods.

Its owner lived there alone for sixty years and filled fifty rooms floor to ceiling, leaving two narrow crawl-channels through the rubbish.

He also left a book of poetry, and the poetry is a lock.

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Eight students spend the summer of 1993 emptying a Victorian house in the woods. Its owner lived there alone for sixty years and filled fifty rooms floor to ceiling, leaving two narrow crawl-channels through the rubbish. He also left a book of poetry, and the poetry is a lock.

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He also left a book of poetry, and the poetry is a lock.

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