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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copyright © Sarra Manning 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008291785
Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008291143
Version: 2018-07-17
Dedicated to William Makepeace Thackeray who created these wonderful characters that I got to play with. I hope that he would approve.
‘All is vanity. Nothing is fair.’
Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
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