Fairytale of New York. Miranda Dickinson

      MIRANDA DICKINSON

       Fairytale Of New York

       Copyright

      Avon

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2009

      This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2017

      Copyright © Miranda Dickinson 2009

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      Cover design © Charlotte Abrams-Simpson 2017

      Miranda Dickinson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of 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: 9781847561657

      Ebook Edition © October 2010 ISBN: 9780007346325

      Version: 2017-11-17

Dedication

       For Linsey – because she wanted to know what happened next.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       Chapter One

      This city is not mine by birthright: I was born over three thousand miles away in a sleepy