Copyright © 2001, 2011 by Melvyn Bragg

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First published in 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton, A division of Hodder Headline PLC, A Sceptre Book

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.

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ISBN: 978-1-61145-468-0