First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
This paperback edition published in Great Britain in 2009 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd.
Copyright © Christopher Hope 1996
The moral right of Christopher Hope to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
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ISBN: 978 1 84887 165 6
eISBN 978 1 78239 734 2
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