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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Amanda Valentine 2019

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      Cover photographs © Rekha Garton / Trevillion Images (main image); Ilina Simeonova / Trevillion Images (flowers)

      Amanda Valentine 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: 9780008219215

      Ebook Edition © November 2019 ISBN: 9780008219222

      Version: 2019-09-24

       Dedication

      For my daughter and my best friend, Jess

       Epigraph

      Hope is the thing with feathers

      That perches in the soul

      And sings the tune without the words

      And never stops at all.

       Emily Dickinson