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SEBASTIAN FAULKS

A Week in December

HUTCHINSON

LONDON

Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Epigraph

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By the same Author

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Reprinted by permission of A. M.

'Business Girls', from Collected Poems, by John Betjeman (c) 1955, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2001. Reproduced by permission of John Murray (Publishers)

First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Hutchinson

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Acknowledgements

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