First Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition 2013
Copyright © 1991 by Margaret Drabble
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First U.S. edition published in 1992 by Viking
Originally published in Great Britain in 1991 by Penguin UK
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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