Pip. Freya North

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      FREYA NORTH

       Pip

      Copyright

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published in Great Britain

       by William Heinemann 2003

      Copyright © Freya North 2003

      Afterword © Freya North 2012

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

      ‘The Tears of a Clown’. Words and Music by Stevie Wonder, William Robinson and Henry Cosby © 1967, Jobete Music Co, Inc./Black Bull Music, Inc., USA. Reproduced by permission of Black Bull Music Inc., Jobete Music Co., London WC2H 0QY. All rights Reserved

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Source ISBN: 9780007462254

      Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007462261

      Version: 2017-11-28

      FIRST EDITION

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      For Mum and Dad

       We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

      Now I know! Thank you.

      ‘Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast’

      Groucho Marx

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       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

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Chapter Thirty-Seven

       Chapter Thirty-Eight

       Chapter