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AVON A division of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016 Copyright © Polly James 2016 Polly James asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue record 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. Source ISBN: 9780007548552 Ebook Edition © June 2016 ISBN: 9780007548569 Version 2016-05-13 For Mark, Daisy and Jack, as always – and for Becky Thomas, without whom there would be no book. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” François de la Rochefoucauld, 1613–1680 Table of Contents