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Copyright © Mhairi McFarlane 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008169336
Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008169329
Version: 2018-10-30
For my niece, Sylvie
A small superhero
Love’s strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on
Simple Minds
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph