The Serpentine Cave

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THE SERPENTINE CAVE
A BLACK SWAN BOOK : 0 552 99720 X

Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday,
a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd

PRINTING HISTORY
Doubleday edition published 1997
Black Swan edition published 1998

Extracts on p116 and p221 from From a Fugue by Bach by Siegfried Sassoon, Poems Newly Selected
(Faber and Faber, 1940)

The right of Jill Paton Walsh to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All the characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

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