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A GOTHIC COLLECTION Florence & Giles The Girl Who Couldn’t Read John Harding The Borough Press An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF Copyright © John Harding 2015 Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015 Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015 John Harding asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works. Catalogue copies of these books are available from the British Library. These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Ebook Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 9780008162955 Version: 2015-09-07 Contents Copyright About the Author Also by John Harding
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JOHN HARDING Florence & Giles The Borough Press An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London, SE1 9GF First published by Blue Door in 2010 Copyright © John Harding 2010 Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2010 Cover photographs © Scott Dingman/Getty Images (girl looking through broken window); Shutterstock (stairwell). John Harding asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. 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. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Ebook Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 9780007315062 Version: 2015-09-07
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