ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Dinsdale lives in London and is working on his next novel.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Little Exiles
COPYRIGHT
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.
HarperCollinsPublishers
First published in the UK by The Borough Press,
an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, London in 2014
First published in Australia in 2014
This edition published in 2014
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ISBN: 978 0 7322 9667 4 (pbk)
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Cover illustration © Anna Morrison
Author photograph by Phillipa Gedge