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Sister, where are you? – Clover Stroud mourns her beloved sibling

‘It felt like someone had scooped out the entire inside of my body’ is how Stroud describes losing her sister Nell to cancer

Nell with her performing horse, the star of many of her acts for Gifford’s Circus. [Alamy]
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  • The Red of My Blood: A Death and Life Story

    Clover Stroud

    Doubleday, pp. 258, £16

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