MIRANDA DICKINSON
Fairytale Of New York
Avon
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2009
This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2017
Copyright © Miranda Dickinson 2009
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Source ISBN: 9781847561657
Ebook Edition © October 2010 ISBN: 9780007346325
Version: 2017-11-17
For Linsey – because she wanted to know what happened next.
Contents
This city is not mine by birthright: I was born over three thousand miles away in a sleepy