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The Zanzibar Wife
ePub ISBN – 9780857988362
First published by Bantam in 2017
Copyright © Deborah Rodriguez 2017
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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Rodriguez, Deborah, author
The Zanzibar wife/Deborah Rodriguez
ISBN 978 0 85798 836 2 (ebook)
Women – Zanzibar – Fiction
Interpersonal relations – Fiction
Oman – Fiction
Zanzibar – Fiction
Cover illustrations by Cheryl Orsini
Additional cover illustration (arch) by Tatyana Prokofieva/Shutterstock.com
Cover design © Christabella Designs
Map by Cheryl Orsini
Recipes © Vanessa Arena (‘The “real” Spice Island spice cake’ and ‘Ginger beef samosas’) and © Jaleela Banu (Omani halwa)
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.