Thursday Night Widows

by Claudia Pi

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  First published in Spanish as Las viudas de los jueves

  by Clarín/Alfaguara, Buenos Aires, 2005

  Bitter Lemon Press gratefully acknowledges the financial

  assistance of the Arts Council of England

  © Claudia Piñeiro, 2005 English translation © Miranda France, 2009 Published by arrangement with Literarische Agentur Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin Inh. Nicole Witt e. K., Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be

  reproduced in any form or by any means without

  written permission of the publisher

  The moral rights of the author and the translator

  have been asserted in accordance with

  the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988

  All the characters and events described in this novel are imaginary and

  any similarity with real people or events is purely coincidental.

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

  eISBN : 978-1-904-73858-9

  Typeset by Alma Books Limited

  Printed and bound by Cox & Wyman Ltd. Reading, Berkshire