Sacking the Stork

First published 2003 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited This Pan edition published 2004 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited St Martins Tower, 31 Market Street, Sydney

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National Library of Australia cataloguing-in-publication data:

Webb, Kris. Sacking the stork.

ISBN 0 330 36453 7.

1. Motherhood – Fiction. 2. Friendship – Fiction. I.Wilson, Kathy. II.Title.

A823.4

The characters and events in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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