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First published in the USA by HarperTeen,
an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. in 2018
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
Published in this ebook edition in 2018
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Version: 2018-07-24
To the lumberjills who served in the Women’s Timber Corps in the forests of Scotland 1942–1946
To Perryn, Jemma, Kirsty, and Rory
You are my everything
John Anderson, my jo, John,
We clamb the hill thegither,
And mony a canty day, John,
We’ve had wi ane anither;
Now we maun totter down, John,
But hand in hand we’ll go,
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo.
from “John Anderson, My Jo”
ROBERT BURNS, 1759–1796
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Epigraph