01594cam a2200385 4500 330795142 TxAuBib 20131109120000.0 130923s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2013040298 9781476711959 147671195X SKYRV TxAuBib Setterfield, Diane. Bellman & Black : a novel / Diane Setterfield. Bellman and Black. 1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books, 2013. 328 pages ; 24 cm. "Emily Bestler books.". Caught up in a moment of boyhood competition, William Bellman recklessly aims his slingshot at a rook resting on a branch, killing the bird instantly. It is a small but cruel act, and is soon forgotten. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, William seems to have put the whole incident behind him. It was as if he never killed the thing at all. But rooks don't forget .... 20131113. Funeral rites and ceremonies Fiction. Memories Fiction. Boys Fiction. Birds Fiction. Cruelty Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Enemies Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Nineteenth century Fiction. Ghost stories. Gothic fiction (Literary genre.) Historical fiction.