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Sands of Time

by Barbara Erskine

Ghost stories, mysteries and love stories make up this collection, which also includes two longer pieces that follow the fortunes of characters from Erskine's novel Whispers in the Sand. She has written two other collections of short stories as well.

publisher HarperCollins

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