This seems like a good chance to do just that.
I dedicated this book to my grandma, who died a few months before it was published, but I still want to recognise and thank my very patient friends and family.
Mum and Dad taught me to read, to love stories, and to ask questions.
Becky and Sarah put up with me and became friends as well as sisters (and Sarah was, and always will be, Eren’s very first reader).
Ashley, my wife, is probably the best person I know, and the little things she did, as well as her impressively unfailing support, mean a lot more than I can say.
Molly, my agent, and Sarah, my editor, are very clever people to whom I will always feel indebted.
Everyone at Constable & Robinson works very hard and sometimes it’s scary seeing quite how brilliant they can be.
I don’t want to bore you, so I’ll stop there. There’ll always be more people to thank, but I’ll leave that for another book.
There’ll always be more books, you know. There’ll always be more stories.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon P. Clark is a founding member of We Are One Four bringing together UK & US authors with MG/YA debuts, in order to promote one another’s work and spread awareness. He grew up in England, has taught English in Japan, and now lives in New Jersey. Tell the Story to Its End is his first novel. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
TELL THE STORY TO ITS END. Copyright © 2014 by Simon P. Clark. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clark, Simon P.
Tell the story to its end / Simon P. Clark. — First U.S. edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-06675-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-7464-0 (e-book)
1. Family problems—Fiction. 2. Storytelling—Fiction. 3. Monsters— Fiction. 4. Secrets—Fiction. 5. Magic—Fiction. I. Title.
PZ7.1.C58Tel 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2015016235
First published in Great Britain under the title Eren by Corsair, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, an Hachette UK company
First U.S. Edition: October 2015
eISBN 9781466874640