LUCA VESTE
The Dying Place
AVON
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copyright © Luca Veste 2014
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Luca Veste asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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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.
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Source ISBN: 9780007525584
Ebook Edition © October 2014 ISBN: 9780007525560
Version: 2015-07-27
For Angelina ‘Angie’ Veste
11/04/1936 – 07/05/2014
My nana. My nonna.
She loved her family and her family loved her.
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