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Copyright © 1992 by Edna O’Brien

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Simultaneously published in Canada by HarperCollinsCanada Ltd.

Published in 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

First Picador edition, September 2019

Picador Paperback ISBN 978-0-374-53881-1

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This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

eISBN 9780374721497

First eBook edition: September 2019