The Murmurings (32 page)
Authors: Carly Anne West
For my husband, Matt: For making sure writing is always there, around every corner, never too far from my side. For insisting I never, ever let it slip away, and for catching it when it falls out of my hand. For believing when I don’t. For listening when it hurts and when it’s exciting and when I hate and love and fear it. For sushi and inspiration, for late night musings, for taking it seriously but always knowing when to laugh. For standing by my side. For facing it with me. For loving every crazy ounce of me. I love you, always.
CARLY ANNE WEST
is a freelance writer with an MFA in English and Writing from Mills College. She lives with her husband and son in Seattle, Washington. Visit her at
carlyannewest.com
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
West, Carly Anne.
The murmurings / Carly Anne West. — 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
p. cm.
Summary: After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break.
ISBN 978-1-4424-4179-8
[1. Death—Ficton. 2. Supernatural—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Fiction. 4. Psychiatric hospitals—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W51733Mu 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012013296
ISBN 978-1-4424-4181-1 (eBook)