AVON
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copyright © Paul Finch 2014
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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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Source ISBN: 9780007551255
Ebook Edition © May 2014 ISBN: 9780007551262
Version: 2017-10-26
For my children, Eleanor and Harry, with whom I shared many a chilling tale when they were tots, but whose enthusiasm is as strong now as it ever was
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