The Magpies by Mark Edwards

When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to marry and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms.

But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their doorstep. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the night. After Jamie's best friend is injured in an horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror.

As they are driven to the edge of despair, Jamie vows to fight back - but he has no idea what he is really up against.

The Magpies is a gripping psychological thriller in which the monsters are not vampires or demons but the people who live next door. It is a nightmare that could happen to anyone.  

The Magpies by Mark Edwards was published by Thomas & Mercer in November 2013, and is the author's debut novel.


There's been a huge social media buzz about The Magpies and Mark Edwards' writing. My copy has been on the shelf for a long time, I decided that it was high time that I got around to reading it, and I read it whilst on holiday in Corfu.

The prologue sets the scene for this quite frightening and chilling story of everyday folk living in what appears to be an ordinary, run of the mill flat.

Jamie and Kirsty were over the moon when they managed to buy their dream home at a knock down price. Things begin well, their neighbours are friendly and welcoming and this really does feel like the place that they will stay. They will marry and have a family, They will be happy.

At first, the Newtons, who live in the garden flat below seem quite easy going, although they didn't turn up for Jamie and Kirsty's housewarming party ... although the fire brigade did .... a hoax call is not the best way to begin life in a new home.

That hoax call is just the beginning of what becomes a total and all consuming nightmare for this young couple. Dead rats, an army of spiders, letters of complaint, numerous orders for pizza and a terrible accident involving Jamie's best friend. As much as they don't want it to be true, it becomes clear that the Newtons downstairs are not what they seemed.

Dark and twisted, The Magpies is a compelling read. Mark Edwards throws up horror after horror for his lead characters, and has created the real neighbours from hell in the Newtons.

Fast paced and entertaining, The Magpies is a book that has the reader frantically turning the pages to see what will come next. There are times when the story becomes just a little bogged down by detail, and I would have liked more depth to the main characters, but these are minor points and do not detract from what is a spine chilling story that really could happen to any of us.

A great debut, I look forward to catching up with this author's more recent books.





Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers in which scary things happen to ordinary people and is inspired by writers such as Stephen King, Ira Levin, Ruth Rendell and Linwood Barclay.
His first solo novel The Magpies (2013), reached the Number One spot on Amazon UK and has sold 300,000 copies to date. This was followed by What You Wish For (2014), Because She Loves Me (2014, also a Number One bestseller in the UK) and Follow You Home (2015).

He also co-writes with Louise Voss. Their novels are; Killing Cupid (2011); Catch Your Death (2011); All Fall Down (2012); Forward Slash and a series featuring Detective Inspector Patrick Lennon, starting with From The Cradle (2014) and The Blissfully Dead (2015).

Mark grew up on the south coast of England and started writing in his twenties while working in a number of dead-end jobs. He lived in Tokyo for a year before returning to the UK and starting a career in marketing. He now writes full-time and lives in the West Midlands, with his wife, their three children, and a ginger cat, Billie, who was named after an actress from Doctor Who.

When he's not writing or looking after children, Mark reads a lot, devours TV box sets and spends far too much time on Twitter and Facebook, where he loves chatting with readers.

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My Life in Books ~ talking to author Eva Holland #Giveaway #TheDaughtersSecret

My Life in Books is an occasional feature on Random Things Through My Letterbox

I've asked authors to share with us a list of the books that are special to them and have made a lasting impression on their life.

Please join me in welcoming Eva Holland to Random Things today.

Eva's debut novel, The Daughter's Secret was published by Orion in August 2015, I reviewed it here on Random Things, and said:

"Perfectly paced, perceptive and incredibly compelling, The Daughter's Secret is full of unexpected twists and turns."

I have a paperback copy of The Daughter's Secret to give away to one Random Things follower today, entry is simple. Just fill out the widget at the end of the post - UK entries only please. 

My Life in Books ~ Eva Holland

Moving Molly by Shirley Hughes   Readers and writers often talk about whether characters in novels are 'relatable' - whether we can empathise with them and their dilemmas. For me as a child, Molly in Moving Molly was so relatable I felt as though the book had been written specially for me. Just like Molly, I was about to move house and was desperately sad to be leaving my old home. And just like Molly, when moving day came, I peeled up a corner of my bedroom wallpaper and scribbled my name underneath it so I could leave a little bit of myself behind.

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder  I still remember how excited I was when I finished Little House in the Big Woods, the first in the Little House on the Prairie series, and discovered there were another eight books to follow. These are the books that showed me stories could transport me through place and time - from my cosy home in a Cotswolds town in the 1980s all the way to the harsh American Midwest a century earlier - and started my lifelong love of reading.

The Collector by John Fowles  Fast forward to my late teens and I spent a summer reading all of John Fowles' novels. I'll never forget The French Lieutenant's Woman, but it was The Collector that really got under my skin and kick-started my love of crime fiction and psychological suspense (although I don't suppose we called it that back then). I have read hundreds of crime novels since that first reading of The Collector but have yet to come across a character who repulses me and fascinates me quite the way Frederick Clegg does.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier   I would hate to have to choose just one favourite book, but if you dangled me off the edge of a building and forced me to, I would probably say Rebecca. I read this in my first week at university and have read it again every few years since then. It probably sounds odd to say this painfully tense masterpiece of suspense with its atmosphere of impending doom is my 'comfort read', but in life's most stressful moments it's back to Manderley I choose to go.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy   We never know the protagonist's name - he's just 'the man' - but we feel every tremor of his fear and heartbreak for his son as they journey across a brutal post-apocalyptic landscape. This incredibly powerful book gave me nightmares. More importantly, though, it made me feel compelled to create my own world with words. After more than a decade in which I let a lack of confidence get in the way of my love of writing fiction, I started again. While the Orkney-set post-apocalyptic novel I wrote after reading The Road will (thankfully) never see the light of day, it was the start of my journey towards being a published author.

Eva Holland ~ June 2016 

Eva Holland was born on an Orkney island and grew up in Gloucestershire. She studied in Leeds and now lives with her husband in North London where she works in public relations.

A lifelong lover of words and stories, Eva is drawn to tales that explore the darker side of family life and is always curious about what goes on behind closed doors.

The Daughter's Secret, published by Orion, is Eva's first novel and won the Good Housekeeping debut novel competition in 2014.

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My Life In Books ~ talking to author Fanny Blake

My Life in Books is an occasional feature on Random Things Through My Letterbox

I've asked authors to share with us a list of the books that are special to them and have made a lasting impact on their life.

I'm really delighted to welcome Fanny Blake to Random Things today. Fanny is the author of five novels.

I really enjoy her writing, her stories are beautifully written and her characters are so real. I've reviewed three of her novels here on Random Things; With A Friend Like You (August 2015); What Women Want (October 2015) and  House of Dreams (December 2015)

The paperback edition of House of Dreams is published today by Orion, if you haven't yet sampled any of Fanny's writing, today is a very good day to start!

My Life In Books ~ Fanny Blake

The Seven Seven by Enid Blyton   I remember my sister and I having to sleep in a caravan while our parents caroused with their friends in the house beside it. In the caravan was a stack of Secret Seven books. I'd never heard of them but that must be the first time I really binged on books. After that I read anything I could lay my hands on by Enid Blyton.

Jalna  by Mazo de la Roche  How I loved this series of novels about the Whiteoak family who lived in Jalna, their house in Ontario.  I'd shut myself in my bedroom and get lost in them. I could still take you to the place in our village library where they were shelved.

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy  I refused to read Jude the Obscure when I was at school even though it was part of the syllabus. I stupidly thought the Victorians weren't for me. Fortunately that all changed the following year when I read this and loved it.

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake  When I was at university, there were two camps of either Tolkein or Peake addicts. I chose Peake for his gothic imagination and fantastical characters. I've never understood the attraction of Hobbits.

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing  This was a life-changing read for me. It spoke about feminism, socialism and so much more in such an original and exhilarating way, and encouraged me towards my own independence.

The Woman's Room by Marilyn French  After separating from my first husband, I holed up on a Mediterranean island with this for company. At the time the way it spoke so frankly to women about our lot was eye-opening. Later I went on to publish Marilyn and she became a friend. I was lucky.

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd  This was the first book I ever acquired for Penguin when I became a commissioning editor there, way back when. I desperately wanted it to work and, when I heard a colleague laughing aloud when they were reading it, I knew I'd made the right decision.

Christine by Stephen King  I read this chiller about a haunted car at the dead of night when I was breast-feeding my first son. What was I thinking? I was scared out of my wits!

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry  I read this during my first trip to India and it remains one of my favourite books of all time. The gripping and moving story of the two tailors, Dina Dalal and her friends' son Marek is set against the 1975 State of Emergency. The prose is exquisite, shot through with humour, and the whole is devastating.

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante  The book that has stayed with me since I read it only last year. A friend recommended it, and I fell in love with the depiction of Naples and the nuanced, detailed portrait of friendship. And there are three more volumes to go - bonus!

Fanny Blake ~ June 2016

Fanny Blake was a publisher for many years, editing both fiction and non-fiction before becoming a freelance journalist and writer.

She has written novels and non-fiction titles, acted as a ghost-writer for a number of celebrities and is also Books Editor of Woman and Home Magazine.

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Daisy In Chains by Sharon Bolton

Famous killers have fan clubs.

Hamish Wolfe is no different. In prison serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets countless adoring letters every day. He's handsome, charismatic and very persuasive. His admirers are convinced he's innocent, and that he's the man of their dreams.

Who would join such a club?

Maggie Rose is different. Reclusive and enigmatic; a successful lawyer with a track record of getting prisoners released and bestselling true-crime writer. But she only takes on cases she thinks she can win.

Hamish wants her as his lawyer. He wants her to change his fate. She thinks she's immune to the charms of a man like this. But maybe not this time .... 

Daisy In Chains by Sharon Bolton is published by Bantam Press in hardback on 2 June 2016.




Sharon Bolton's imagination scares the hell out of me. There's a feeling of menace that is quite disturbing at times, running through this story, it's really quite unsettling, yet the writing is so well done, so compelling that you just have to carry on reading, just one more page ....

Hamish Wolfe; convicted murderer, serving a whole-life sentence in HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight. He's infamous, he's well-known, his case made the headlines, mainly because he's a surgeon, well-educated and very handsome. He's still very popular. Despite being found guilty of the horrific murders of overweight young women, he receives hundreds of letters from adoring females.

The only female that Hamish is interested in, except for his much-missed dog Daisy, is Maggie Rose. She's famous too. A skilled lawyer, author of true-crime books and irritant to the police force. Maggie has represented convicted murderers before, she's managed to get them freed from prison, but she only takes on cases when she knows she can win. Maggie doesn't think that Hamish has a case. She's not interested in him.

Hamish is charming and intelligent though, and gradually, he gets to Maggie, until finally she agrees to take on his case. She's also involved, at arms length, with the Detective who put Hamish away, as well as coming into contact with Hamish's 'fan club' - that bunch of people who are convinced of his innocence, led by his mother.

The plot of Daisy In Chains dives and dips and twists around corners, into dark shadows that at times are quite terrifying. Sharon Bolton cleverly incorporates the darkness of the human mind alongside the legal and police procedural. Her characters are vibrant and expertly drawn; from the enigmatic, handsome Hamish to the almost ghost-like delicateness of Maggie.

Readers will probably, as I did, think they've got this sussed at around half-way through, I'll be really really surprised if anyone actually gets it right!

Daisy In Chains is clever and riveting. Sharon Bolton is a very skilful author. Highly recommended.

My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy for review.

Sharon Bolton (previously SJ Bolton) is the critically acclaimed and Sunday Times bestselling author of some of the most bone-chilling crime novels ever written, including the much loved Lacey Flint series. 
In 2014 she won the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body of work, and she has also been shortlisted for CWA  Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and son.

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My Life In Books ~ talking to author Fionnuala Kearney

My Life in Books is an occasional feature on Random Things Through My Letterbox

I've asked authors to share with us a list of the books that are special to them and have made a lasting impression on their life.

I'm so pleased to welcome Fionnuala Kearney to Random Things today.  I read and reviewed her first novel, You, Me and Other People in June 2015. 

Fionnuala's second novel, The Day I Lost You will be published in the UK in September - I'm really looking forward to reading it.

My Life in Books ~ Fionnuala Kearney

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell   I'm a fan of anything by this author but After You'd Gone is a gem. It's one of those books that at first glance, because of different perspectives and narratives, you almost think, 'Uh-oh,' but within minutes, you're in the grip of an emotional roller-coaster. Maggie O'Farrell has a knack of making you walk in her character's shoes and Alice's story is sad, tender and beautifully written. My copy is tear stained, dog-eared and loved.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  I didn't think he could better The Kite Runner but, for me, he did just that with this book. The story centres on the bond between two women, Mariam and Layla. Set against the background of war-torn Afghanistan, It's ultimately about how love and the human spirit can triumph in the most awful circumstances. I'm in awe of how male Hosseini manages to write from two different female points of view in such an engaging and sympathetic way, making us see the world very differently through their eyes.

One Day by David Nicholls  I love the easy manner in which Emma's and disastrous, but loveable, Dexter's lives unfold over twenty years, their story unravelling on the same date each year. Nicholls writes authentic,  real-life dialogue - you know - the sort you often hear on the bus; making shy Emma and arrogant Dexter scream their many layers from the page. Oh, this is one I so wish I'd written!

Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell  Occasionally, I really like to lose myself in a pacy thriller and though I've been a Kay Scarpetta fan for many years, I think the first in the series, Post Mortem, is still my favourite. Even after twenty-one other novels, this one, if you'll forgive the pun, is a killer. It's medical examiner versus serial killer and if you like the occasional leap from your seat, it's a tense, suspenseful, gritty, read.

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak  I'll steer away from spoilers but will say that this book has my favourite ever last line. It's just so powerful ....  The story is about nine year old Liesel, living with her foster parents during the rise of Nazi Germany. Most unusually, it's narrated by 'Death' and though it often tackles the cruel elements of human nature, the tale is surprisingly warm and up-lifting too. It's a tome at 554 pages, but so worth it.  DO NOT read the last line first!

Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald  Recently, I've started walking early in the morning and am a relative newcomer to audiobooks. I downloaded this classic and though I've yet to finish it (need to walk more!) I'm loving both the book and the medium. The setting, so far in the south of France and Paris, is perfect and I can't wait to find out what secrets the glamorous Dick and Nicole Divers hide and how they'll affect young Hollywood actress Rosemary Hoyt who's infatuated with them both. I just know this book is going to throw so much more at me on my morning walks.

Fionnuala Kearney ~ May 2016 

Fionnuala Kearney lives in Ascot with her husband, they have two grown-up daughters.

One of seven children, Fionnuala likes to write about the nuances and the subtle layers of human relationships, peeling them away to see what's really going on beneath.

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My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one.

Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas. But the adults are speaking in low voices, and wearing Pretend faces. They are threatening to give Jake to strangers. Since Jake is white and Leon is not.

As Leon struggles to cope with his anger, certain things can still make him smile - like Curly Wurlys, riding his bike fast downhill, burying his hands deep in the soil, hanging out with Tufty (who reminds him of his dad), and stealing enough coins so that one day he can rescue Jake and his mum.

Evoking a Britain of the early eighties, My Name Is Leon is a heart-breaking story of love, identity and learning to overcome unbearable loss. Of the fierce bond between siblings. And how - just when we least expect it - we manage to find our way home. 

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal is published by Viking (Penguin) in Hardback, Audio book and E Book on 2 June 2016 and is the author's first novel.



Kit de Waal has packed so much into this beautiful novel. It's just over 250 pages long and has such an emotional impact. I fell in love with Leon on the very first page, just as Leon himself was falling in love with his new-born baby brother Jake.

It is the never wavering, total immersive love that Leon feels for Jake that screams out from this story the most. Life is not easy for Leon, his dad left some time ago, his mum either goes out and leave him alone, or takes to her bed for long periods. Loving baby Jake is not only Leon's instinct, he feels that it's his duty too. Just as he does his best to look after his mum.

But Leon is only ten years old, despite the fact that he's stocky for his age, and people often mistake him for an older boy. He's just ten, and caring for a tiny baby and a mum who is struggling becomes too much for him. Caring but concerned neighbour Tina finally has to inform someone, and Leon and Jake go to live with Maureen.

When Jake is taken away to live with new parents, because it's easier to find a new family for a white baby than to find anyone who wants to give Leon a new home, and it's because Leon is not white.

Set in 1980, Kit de Waal has captured the era perfectly. With a backdrop of a Royal Wedding, racial tension and disrupted streets, along with Curly Wurlys and a BMX, My Name is Leon is so very very authentic.

The author writes with authority and compassion, with a heavy dose of wit and humour that avoids the book turning into the bleak and depressing. Her characters are vivid and honest and beautifully created, there are many to fall in love with; Maureen, Tufty, Slyvia, each one of them are genuine and perfectly created.

Leon's story is heart-breaking at times. He's seen and heard far too much in his short life, yet retains an innocence that defines him. He feels unwanted inside, yet he comes across a community of people who accept him for who he is, with no question, and the developing relationships are tenderly nurtured by the author.

Leon is a character to cherish. My Name is Leon is a book to savour and to remember, and Kit de Waal is most certainly a very talented author, one to watch in the future.

My thanks to the publisher who sent my copy for review.

Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Caribbean father and worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law. She has been awarded the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize in both 2014 and 2015, the SI Leeds Literary Reader's Choice Prize 2014, and second place in both the Costa Short Story Award 2014 and the Bath Short Story Award 2014. Her short stories, 'The Beautiful Thing' and 'Adrift at the Athena' have also been produced for BBC Radio 4.
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My Life In Books ~ talking to author Laura Wilkinson

My Life in Books is an occasional feature on Random Things Through My Letterbox

I've asked authors to share with us a list of the books that are special to them and have left a lasting impression on their life.

Please join me in giving a very warm welcome to Laura Wilkinson today.

Laura is the author of two novels, both published by Accent Press.  Public Battles, Private Wars was published in March 2014, followed by Redemption Song in January 2016.

I've read, enjoyed and reviewed both of Laura's books here on Random Things, check out my review of Public Battles, Private Wars from October 2014, and the Redemption Song Blog Tour post from February this year.

My Life in Books ~ Laura Wilkinson

Many authors harbour a desire to write from an early age but I didn't. As a child I only wrote when forced by my English teacher, Miss Logan. Even thank-you letters were a chore. I did, however, adore stories and was a voracious reader. I still am. So when Anne asked if I'd like to take part in her occasional series My Life In Books, I leapt at the opportunity. To focus on just a few books has been a tremendously difficult task but here are some I will never forget. Thanks, Anne.

My earliest memories of story are Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit series and Blyton remained a firm favourite throughout my girlhood. One of two treasured books which had belonged to my mother when she was a girl was Blyton's The Land of Far Beyond. Complete with illustrations, some colour plates, I was fascinated by the huge burdens the children carried on their backs, the skeletal hands that gripped their shoulders, the menacing city of Turmoil. Growing up in a family with no religious leanings whatsoever - my mother hadn't even bothered to have my sister and me christened - and without a religious education I had no idea it was a reworking of John Bunyon's The Pilgrim's Progress, I simply enjoyed the adventure.

The other battered, much loved, hand-me-down book was Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic The Secret Garden. I fell in love with disagreeable, lonely Mary Lennox amost from the off. I was close to my mother's brother, my uncle Pete, who had been paralysed in a motorbike accident at sixteen and I remember crying with Colin steps from his wheelchair and walks. The book left me with a love of unusual heroines, landscape and even now I hanker after a walled garden with a rose swing.

But it wasn't all Blyton, The Shrimp and the Anemone left a huge impression, as did Lord of the Flies, Stig of the Dump and many, many others. I was fortunate that my mother worked in the county library and was forever bringing home literary delights. And A levels and then a degree in literature introduced me to swathes of classics from Europe and across the pond. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale made a huge impression as did Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5.  The unforgettable Billy Pilgrim, 'spastic in time', who meets aliens from outer space and witnesses the destruction of Dresden in World War II, allied revenge fro the bombing of Coventry. Based on Vonnegut's own experience, it is still the most powerful anti-war novel ever IMHO. It's barely 150 pages, but my goodness what a punch it packs. It demonstrates that the best fiction often takes huge risks and isn't afraid to cross a genre.

As a young adult I discovered the late, great Bernice Rubens when one of my subscription magazines - it might have been Cosmopolitan - gifted A Five Year Sentence, which only goes to show that these promos do work. Rubens focus on alienated, lonely and, bluntly, often disturbed protagonists is mesmerising. Darkly comic, she examines the human condition without romanticism, but with precision and enormous tenderness. Miss Hawkins plans to commit suicide on the day of her forced retirement from her job. Institutionalised from childhood, she cannot contemplate a life without rules, structure. But her leaving gift is a five-year diary and programmed to obey she cannot depart this world until her sentence is over. Unusual and monumentally gripping. Miss Hawkins is a quirky, distinct heroine I cannot forget.

I cried buckets reading Ian McEwan's Atonement. I shed almost as many tears as I did reading Captain Corelli's Mandolin but I was pregnant with my first child when I read that one and the tears flowed at the most obvious point. Not so with Atonement. I first wept during the Stukas attack as the allies and French civilians are retreating to Dunkirk - what an incredible piece of writing that is. Tense, emotionally compelling, spare, never flashy. And I cried again, of course, when we discover that Cecilia and Robbie never did get to fulfil their love. Like lots of McEwan's work it's such a clever novel but it doesn't lose its emotional connections. It's maddening and heart-breaking and utterly devastating.

I'm a fan of Maggie O'Farrell, Susan Fletcher, Sarah Raynor, Sarah Hall, Claire Keegan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jenn Ashworth, Jojo Moyes and David Nicholls to name but a few and I'd love to give them more time ....

But the last book I'll mention today is one I've read quite recently and which made a massive impression - for the beauty of its prose, its humour and honesty and realism, Emma Jane Unsworth's Animals. Billed as Withnail and I for girls, it's so much more than that (and loved Withnail), Set in contemporary Manchester, it's a laugh-out-loud funny and touching story of female friendship and the struggle to grow up. Why did it resonate so much with me? I had a friend not dissimilar to Unsworth's lead and we had an incredibly intense, hedonistic and ultimately destructive realtionship. Memories of those times crashed back as I read. I'm still not sure if I'm a proper grown-up. I suspect we never are.

Thanks so much for having me, Anne.

Laura Wilkinson ~ May 2016

Laura Wilkinson grew up in a Welsh market town and now lives in Brighton with her husband and two boys.

As well as writing fiction, she works as a mentor and editor for The Writing Coach and literary consultancy, Cornerstones.

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