We Are Not Ourselves. Matthew Thomas

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014

      First published in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Inc. in 2014

      Copyright © 2014 by Matthew Thomas

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      “Touch me.” Copyright © 1995 by Stanley Kunitz, from Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selected by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007548217

      Ebook Edition © August 2014 ISBN: 9780007548224

      Version: 2015-02-20