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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      Copyright © Stephanie Merritt 2018

      Excerpt from A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland © Sara Maitland 2008

      Reproduced by kind permission of Granta Books

      Cover design Micaela Alcaino © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Cover photograph © Jan Bickerton / Trevillion Images

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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: 9780008248208

      Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780008248222

      Version: 2018-06-11