THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

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

Text copyright © 2019 by Sinéad O’Hart

Cover art copyright © 2019 by Sarah Mulvanny

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in the United Kingdom by Stripes Publishing in February 2019.

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ISBN 9781101935071 (trade) — ISBN 9781101935088 (lib. bdg.) — ebook ISBN 9781101935095

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