The Innocents. Laura Lippman

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      THE INNOCENTS

      Laura Lippman

      Copyright

      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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      First published in the USA by HarperCollinsPublishers,

      New York, NY, 2011

      Copyright © Laura Lippman 2012

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      Source ISBN: 9781847561954

      Ebook Edition © July 2012 ISBN: 9780007453290

      Version 2018-07-23

       For Georgia Rae Simon

       Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,

       For rich repiner and household drudge!

       God pity them both! and pity us all,

       Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

      —JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “MAUD MULLER”

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       GO-GO

       US

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two: Summer 1976

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four: Autumn 1977–Spring 1978

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six: Summer 1978

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight: Summer 1978

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten: Autumn 1978–Winter 1979

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve: Summer 1979

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen: September 5, 1979

       Them

       Chapter Fifteen: Autumn 1979

       Chapter Sixteen: Winter 1980

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen: Spring 1980

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One: Summer 1980

       Chapter Twenty-Two: Autumn 1980

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four: Winter 1980

       Pity Them

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two