ALSO BY SHEILA KOHLER
Dreaming For Freud
The Bay of Foxes
Love Child
Becoming Jane Eyre
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
Cracks
Stories From Another World
ONCE
WE
WERE
SISTERS
SHEILA KOHLER
Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Sheila Kohler, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted
First published in the United States by Penguin Books, an imprint of
Penguin Random House LLC, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN: 978 1 78211 997 5
Export ISBN: 978 1 78211 998 2
eISBN: 978 1 78211 999 9
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Designed by Elke Sigal
Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed
to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.
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