Copyright

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009

FIRST EDITION

Tracy Chevalier asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while based on real historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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