Her Perfect Lies. Lana Newton
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Название: Her Perfect Lies

Автор: Lana Newton

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

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isbn: 9780008364854

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       About the Author

      LANA NEWTON grew up in two opposite corners of the Soviet Union – the snow-white Siberian town of Tomsk and the golden-domed Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Australia with her mother. Lana and her family live on the Central Coast of NSW, where it never snows and is always summer-warm.

      Lana studied IT at university and, as a student, wrote poetry in Russian that she hid from everyone. For over a decade after graduating, she worked as a computer programmer. When she returned to university to complete her history degree, her favourite lecturer encouraged her to write fiction. She hasn’t looked back, and never goes anywhere without her favourite pen because you never know when the inspiration might strike.

      Lana’s short stories appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she was the winner of the Historical Novel Society Autumn 2012 Short Fiction competition. Her novels are published by HQ Digital, an imprint of HarperCollins UK.

      Lana also writes historical fiction under the pen name of Lana Kortchik.

      To find out more, please visit http://www.lanakortchik.com

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lanakortchik

      Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/lanakortchik

      Her Perfect Lies

      LANA NEWTON

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

      Copyright © Lana Newton 2019

      Svetlana Newton 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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      E-book Edition © November 2019 ISBN: 9780008364854

      Version: 2019-09-11

      Table of Contents

       Cover

      About the Author

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

      Part I

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Part II

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Epilogue: A Year Later

       Acknowledgements

       Dear Reader …

       Keep Reading …

       About the Publisher

       For Sal, the bravest of the brave

Part I

       Chapter 1

      A stranger watched her from the mirror. Grey eyes, pale lips, blonde – almost white – hair, as if bleached by the sun, a face she felt she had never seen before. The only thing she knew about this stranger was her name.

      Claire. They said her name was Claire.

      They told her other things, of course – things she found hard to believe. She was famous, touring around the world with the largest ballet company in the country. The nurses talked about her as if they knew her. One had even seen her perform, in far away Australia of all places.

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