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First published in Great Britain as Bone China by Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019

Published in Penguin Books 2020

Copyright © 2019 by Laura Purcell

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2020933988

ISBN 9780143135531 (paperback)

ISBN 9780525507192 (ebook)

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

Cover design: Stephen Brayda

Cover images: (house) Lee Frost / Trevillion Images; (swallows) Shutterstock

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