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Some of these stories previously appeared in the following publications: “The Vanishing Princess” in New Statesman; “Sex and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll: Part II” in New Statesman and New Woman; “On the Existence of Mount Rushmore and Other Improbabilities” in London Review of Books; “Bath Time” in Sacred Space (Serpent’s Tail, ed. Marsha Rowe).

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE VANISHING PRINCESS. Copyright © 1995 by The Estate of Jenny Diski. Foreword © 2017 by Heidi Julavits. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Originally published in Great Britain in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

First paperback edition published in Great Britain in 1996 by Phoenix, a division of Orion Books Ltd.

FIRST ECCO PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED 2017.

EPub Edition December 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-268572-8

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-268571-1