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The Library of Congress has cataloged the G. P. Putnam’s Sons hardcover edition as follows:
The secret life of Violet Grant / Beatriz Williams.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-399-16217-6
61. Nieces—Fiction. 2. Aunts—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3623.I55643S48 2014 2013043630
813'6—dc23
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