Copyright © 2024 Maia Caron
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: The last secret: a novel / Maia Caron.
Names: Caron, Maia, author.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240322525 | Canadiana (ebook) 20240322533 | ISBN 9780385688826 (softcover) | ISBN 9780385688833 (EPUB)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PS8605.A764 L37 2024 | DDC C813/.6—dc23
Ebook ISBN 9780385688833
This book 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 or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Cover and interior design: Kelly Hill, adapted for ebook
Cover images: (coat) Anna Gorin, (trees) OliverLeicher, (braid) Cavan Images, all Getty Images; (frame) pingebat, (coat collar) Galina, both Adobe Stock
Interior image: Bernhard Lang/Getty Images
Typesetting: Sean Tai, adapted for ebook
The author wishes to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Published in Canada by Doubleday Canada,
a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
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