by Jean Ure
Gran, of course, wouldn’t believe a word of it.
First published 2012 by
A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc
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Illustrations copyright © Mark Beech
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ISBN: 978 1 4081 6359 7
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