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FREYA NORTH
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain
by William Heinemann 2003
Copyright © Freya North 2003
Afterword © Freya North 2012
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
‘The Tears of a Clown’. Words and Music by Stevie Wonder, William Robinson and Henry Cosby © 1967, Jobete Music Co, Inc./Black Bull Music, Inc., USA. Reproduced by permission of Black Bull Music Inc., Jobete Music Co., London WC2H 0QY. All rights Reserved
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Source ISBN: 9780007462254
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For Mum and Dad
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
Now I know! Thank you.
‘Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast’
Groucho Marx
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