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First published in 1994
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780007280773
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007320929
Version: 2017-09-07
For A.J.
who thought of the title
‘Where’er we tread ’tis haunted, holy ground’.
Byron
‘C’était pendant l’horreur d’une profonde nuit …’
Racine
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