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A&R Classics

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First published in 2003 by HarperCollinsPublishers

This edition published in 2014

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Copyright © Janette Turner Hospital 2003

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-

Due preparations for the plague / Janette Turner Hospital.

978 0 7322 9845 6 (pbk)

978 1 4607 0173 7 (epub)

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