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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2017

Copyright © 2017 Katherine Heiny

Cover design by Heike Schüssler

Cover images © plainpicture/Rudi Sebastian

Katherine Heiny asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Portions of this work originally appeared, in different form, in the following publications: Chapter one has appeared as “Fluent in Her Language” in the Antioch Review, Winter 2012; chapter two appeared as “The Seamy Side” in the Southern Review, Summer 2013; chapter three appeared as “We’re Here” in the Southern Review, Winter 2013; chapter four appeared as “Lame Duck” in the Gettysburg Review, Summer 2014; chapter five appeared as “Leviathan” in Glimmer Train, Issue 90, Spring / Summer 2014.

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: 9780008105525

Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008105518

Version: 2018-06-27

Dedication

FOR Ian

Epigraph

Before you became my mistress I led a blameless life.

LAURIE COLWIN

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter | One

Chapter | Two

Chapter | Three

Chapter | Four

Chapter | Five

Chapter | Six

Chapter | Seven

Chapter | Eight

Chapter | Nine

Acknowledgments

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