The Perfume Collector. Kathleen Tessaro

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       Copyright

      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.

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

      Copyright © Kathleen Tessaro 2013

      Kathleen Tessaro asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007419845

      Ebook Edition © April 2013 ISBN: 9780007419838

      Version: 2017-11-29

      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

Paris, Winter 1954

London, Spring 1955

New York City, 1927

Paris, Spring, 1955

New York, 1927

Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       New York, 1927

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       Hôtel Hermitage, Monte Carlo, 1932

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       Crawley, West London, 1928

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       West Challow, Oxfordshire, England, 1935

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       Paris, September 1942, during the Nazi occupation

       Paris, Spring, 1955

       Paris, Winter, 1954

       Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading – Rare Objects

       Also by Kathleen Tessaro

       About the Publisher

       For my son Eddie Always, evermore … and then some

       Paris, Winter 1954

      Eva d’Orsey sat at the kitchen table, listening to the ticking clock, a copy of Le Figaro in front of her. This was the sound of time, moving away from her.

      Taking another drag from a cigarette, she looked out of the window, into the cold misty morning. Paris was waking now, the grey dawn, streaked with orange, seeping slowly into a navy sky. She’d been up for hours, since four. Sleep had СКАЧАТЬ