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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 2016
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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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Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780008165086
Source ISBN: 9780008133726
Version 2017-05-09
For my family: my parents, Roger and Theresa;
my sister, Laura; and my brothers, Richard and Tony—
who all love nothing more than a good story, well told.
There was always this dichotomy: what to keep up, what to change.
—WILLIAM TREVOR, “THE PIANO TUNER’S WIVES”
That’s how I knew this story would break my heart
When you wrote it
That’s how I knew this story would break my heart
—AIMEE MANN, THE FORGOTTEN ARM
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