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

First published in 2019

Copyright © Heather Rose 2019

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The excerpt on p. 18 is from ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling.

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