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      Copyright © Anne Bennett 2015

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      Cover photographs © Gordon Crabb (woman and baby); Birmingham Museum Trust (street scene)

      Anne Bennett asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Cottage photograph © Martin Logue

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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: 9780007359271

      Ebook Edition © November 2015 ISBN: 9780007383276

      Version: 2017-09-08