VIKING

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Copyright © 2013 by Samuel Bjørk

Translation copyright © 2015 by Charlotte Barslud

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Originally published in Norwegian under the title Der henger en engel alene i skogen by Vigmostad & Bjørke AS, Bergen.

First published in English in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.

eBook ISBN 978-0-698-19380-2

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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