Diamonds in the Dust

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  First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2007.

  This ebook edition published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2015.

  Copyright © 2007 by BERYL MATTHEWS

  The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978–0–7490–1823–8