First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017
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Text © Kimberly McCreight 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008115081
Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780008115098
Version: 2017-06-24
For every girl who’s been told she’s too sensitive.
For every woman who’s taught herself not to be.
Life is a dream. ’Tis waking that kills us.
—Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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