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    "annotation": "<P>\nThis is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners.  It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets.  But above everything else it's about love.  Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. <BR><BR>Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's caused by some traumatic incident from my past I keep deep-rooted in my mind. As soon as I come clean I'll flood out all these tears and it'll all be ok and I won't be scared of Them anymore. The truth is I can't think of any single traumatic childhood incident to tell her. I mean, there are plenty of bad memories - Herb's death, or the time I bit the hole in my tongue, or Finners Island, out on the boat with Sarah - but none of these are what caused the phobia. I've always had it. It's Them. I'm just scared of Them. It's that simple.<BR><BR>A spellbinding debut novel about a boy with severe arachnophobia by an exceptional new young British talent.</P>",
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