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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 This edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2014
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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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Source ISBN: 9780007513123
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007513147
Version: 2018-01-30
For my Dad, with love
and
In memory of my darling Mummy
who had her own part in the origins
of this story, and who would have loved
to join in the adventure of writing it.
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