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The Borough Press
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Lionel Shriver 2013
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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: 9780007271108
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007481651
Version: 2017-04-06
To Greg—who was unfailingly, improbably glad for anything good that ever happened to me, and in the face of whose drastic, fantastic, astonishing life any fiction pales.
One in Three Would Trade Year of Life for Ideal Body
Daily Telegraph headline, 24 March 2011
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