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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017
First published in the United States by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, in 2017
This eBook edition published in 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Eleanor Henderson
Eleanor Henderson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, for reprinted excerpts here of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s November 28, 1930, Warm Springs, Georgia, radio address, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msf00416.
This is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it either are the work of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008158682
Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780008158712
Version: 2018-06-04
For my father, Billy
And the children struggled within her; and she said, If it be so,
why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord.
And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb.
—GENESIS 25:22–23
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