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Copyright © Hazel Gaynor 2018
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(Lighthouse/background), Lee Avison / Arcangel images (Woman on hill)
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Source ISBN: 9780008255213
Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008255237
Version: 2018-08-07
For courageous women everywhere. You know who you are.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
—Louisa May Alcott
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
—Edith Wharton
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: Matilda
Volume One
Chapter One: Sarah
Chapter Two: Grace
Chapter Three: Sarah
Chapter Four: Grace
Chapter Five: Sarah
Chapter Six: Grace
Chapter Seven: Sarah
Chapter Eight: Grace
Chapter Nine: Sarah
Chapter Ten: Grace
Chapter Eleven: Matilda
Chapter Twelve: Matilda
Chapter Thirteen: Harriet
Chapter Fourteen: Matilda
Chapter Fifteen: Grace
Chapter Sixteen: Grace
Chapter Seventeen: Grace
Volume Two
Chapter Eighteen: Matilda
Chapter Nineteen: Harriet
Chapter Twenty: Matilda
Chapter Twenty-One: Grace
Chapter Twenty-Two: Grace
Chapter Twenty-Three: Grace
Chapter Twenty-Four: Grace
Chapter Twenty-Five: Matilda
Chapter Twenty-Six: Matilda
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Harriet
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Matilda
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Grace
Chapter Thirty: Grace
Chapter Thirty-One: Grace
Chapter Thirty-Two: Grace
Chapter Thirty-Three: Grace
Chapter Thirty-Four: Matilda
Chapter Thirty-Five: Harriet
Chapter Thirty-Six: Matilda
Volume Three
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Grace
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Grace
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Matilda
Chapter Forty: Matilda
Chapter Forty-One: Grace
Chapter Forty-Two: George
Chapter Forty-Three: Grace
Chapter Forty-Four: Grace
Chapter Forty-Five: Matilda
Chapter Forty-Six: Matilda
Chapter Forty-Seven: Grace
Chapter Forty-Eight: Matilda
Chapter Forty-Nine: Harriet
Chapter Fifty: Grace
Chapter Fifty-One: Matilda
Chapter Fifty-Two: Harriet
Chapter Fifty-Three: Matilda
Chapter Fifty-Four: Grace
Chapter Fifty-Five: George
Chapter Fifty-Six: Matilda
Epilogue
Acknowledgments