Maureen is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Rachel Joyce

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Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom as Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House UK, in 2022.

The interview comes from an original recording for BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub program, presented by James Naughtie and recorded in 2021. Used by permission.

ISBN 9780593446423

Ebook ISBN 9780593446430

Illustrations by Andrew Davidson

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