by Lucy Clarke
Copyright © 2014 by Lucy Clarke
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First Touchstone trade paperback edition April 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clarke, Lucy, 1981-
A single breath : a novel / Lucy Clarke.—First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
pages cm
1. Midwives—Fiction. 2. Bereavement—Fiction. 3. Deception—Fiction. 4. Family secrets—Fiction. 5. Tasmania—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6103.L3744S56 2014
823'.92—dc23
2013035565
ISBN 978-1-4767-5015-6
ISBN 978-1-4767-5016-3 (ebook)