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Автор: Barbara Erskine
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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014 This edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2014

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover images © Hazel McAllister/Alamy (swallow); Shutterstock.com (all other images)

      Barbara Erskine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      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: 9780007513123

      Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007513147

      Version: 2018-01-30

       Dedication

       For my Dad, with love

       and

       In memory of my darling Mummy

       who had her own part in the origins

       of this story, and who would have loved

       to join in the adventure of writing it.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       The Family Tree

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Epilogue

       Postscript

       A collection of memories from Barbara’s father, Nigel Rose, which inspired the writing of The