Cooking for Picasso is a work of historical fiction, using well-known historical and public figures. All incidents and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Camille Aubray LLC

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Aubray, Camille, author.

Title: Cooking for Picasso : a novel / Camille Aubray.

Description: New York : Ballantine Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016016922 (print) | LCCN 2016024426 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399177651 (hardback) | ISBN 9780399177675 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Picasso, Pablo, 1881–1973—Fiction. | Women cooks—France—Fiction. | Cooking—France—Fiction. | Biographical fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Sagas. | FICTION / Contemporary Women.

Classification: LCC PS3602.E46 C665 2016 (print) | LCC PS3602.E46 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016016922

ebook ISBN 9780399177675

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