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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either 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.

Copyright 1952 by Catherine Cookson
Copyright restored (under section 104A of 17 U.S.C., as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, Pub. L. No. 103-465) by The Trustees of the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trusts. Originally published in 1952 in Great Britain by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cookson, Catherine.
The fifteen streets : a novel / Catherine Cookson.
p. cm.
1. Social classes—Fiction. 2. England—Fiction. I. Title: 15 streets. II. Title.
PR6053.O525 F54 2002
823’.914—dc21              2002026929

ISBN 0-7432-3678-5
eISBN-13: 978-1-45165-690-9