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Mahogany Eve by Alan Payne world book day  Rite of Passage isAn exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. Andrew Motion The guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. Shes looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and