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      Copyright © Jane Lambert 2018

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      Excerpt from Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, translation by Peter Carson, is reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

      The extract from Miranda by Peter Blackmore is used by the express permission of the publishers, Creselles Publishing Company Limited, Colwall.

      Lines from On Golden Pond by Ernest Thomson by kind permission of Earl Graham at The Graham Agency, New York.

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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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      E-book Edition © January 2018 ISBN: 978-0-00-828390-2

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