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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

      Copyright © Karin Slaughter 2017

      Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2018. Cover photographs © Stephen Carroll/Arcangel Images

      Excerpt from letter “To A” – Flannery O’Connor

      Copyright © 1979 by Regina O’Connor

      Reprinted by permission of the Mary Flannery O’Connor Charitable Trust via Harold Matson Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

      Dr Seuss quotation from an interview in the L.A. Times reproduced by kind permission of the Dr Seuss estate

      Karin Slaughter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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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: 9780008150761

      Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780008150785

      Version: 2018-09-24