In a kitchen in the soft light of early morning, a red and white Pembroke Welsh Corgi lies quietly on his bed by the back door, looking up as a young woman of East Asian heritage in pyjamas and a cardigan comes in smiling, a blackbird singing on a branch outside the window.

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The Blackbird

Every spring a blackbird moves into the tree outside the bedroom window and starts his set at a quarter to five. Not a gentle tune, either: the full concert, every morning, an hour before the alarm. You lie there, wide awake, plotting.

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