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Fourth Estate
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This Fourth Estate paperback edition published 2010 1

Published in paperback by Profile Books, 2004
First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books in 1994

Lynne Truss asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-0-00-735528-0

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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