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SIMON BARNES
Miss Chance
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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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
Copyright © Simon Barnes 2000
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An extract from ‘along the brittle treacherous bright streets’ is reprinted from Complete Poems 1904–1962 by E.E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage.
An extract from ‘The Waste Land’ is reprinted from Collected Poems 1909–62 by T.S. Eliot by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
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Source ISBN: 9780006511960
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2016 ISBN: 9780007484874
Version: 2016-10-04
For CLW, whom I courted on horseback, and also for Dolly Dolores VII (who may feel inclined to sue)
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