THE WIDOWS’ CLUB
Amanda Brooke
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copyright © Amanda Valentine 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008219215
Ebook Edition © November 2019 ISBN: 9780008219222
Version: 2019-09-24
For my daughter and my best friend, Jess
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph