Copyright

4th Estate

An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

This Fourth Estate ebook edition published 2018

First published in Great Britain by Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd 1978

First published in paperback by Flamingo in 1989, 2002

Previously published in paperback by Harper Perennial 2006 and 4th Estate in 2014

Copyright © Penelope Fitzgerald 1978

Introduction © David Nicholls 2013

Preface © Hermione Lee 2013

Series advisory editor: Hermione Lee

Film poster © Green Films AIE, Diagonal Televisió SLU, A Contracorriente Films SL, Zephyr Films The Bookshop Ltd.

Still photography by Aidan Monaghan.

Penelope Fitzgerald asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for 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: 9780008263027

Ebook Edition © JUNE 2018 ISBN: 9780007373833

Version: 2018-06-05

Dedication

To an old friend

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Penelope Fitzgerald: Preface by Hermione Lee, Advisory Editor

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

About the Author

By the same author

About the Publisher

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