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      First Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

      Copyright © Charles Cumming 2012

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      BOX 88 extract © Charles Cumming 2020

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      Extract from The Spirit Level copyright © Seamus Heaney

      Published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber 2001

      Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber

      Extract from The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley © 1953 Hamish Hamilton reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd

      Extract from Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham © 1928 William Heinemann reproduced by kind permission of A P Watt on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund

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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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      Ebook Edition © March 2012 ISBN: 9780007346448

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