Half Broken Things (40 page)

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Vanda Joss, Patrick Toynbee and Ben Wright for sharing expertise and giving advice, and I am grateful also to Jonathan Ray for help with wine cellars.

Thanks for their faith and hard work are due, as ever, to my friend and agent Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton Limited, and to my editor Wayne Brookes, to Lucy Dixon and the sales and marketing teams at Hodder & Stoughton.

Most of all, my thanks to Tim and Hannah, for everything.

Morag Joss

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HALF BROKEN THINGS

A Delacorte Book / October 2005

Published in Great Britain in 2004 by Hodder and Stoughton

Published by Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

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

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Copyright © 2004 by Morag Joss

Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Joss, Morag.

Half broken things/Morag Joss.

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1. Triangles (Interpersonal relationships)—Fiction. 2. Swindlers and swindling—Fiction. 3. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Pregnant women—Fiction. 5. Country homes—Fiction. 6. Housesitting—Fiction. 7. Murderers—Fiction. 8. England—Fiction. I. Title.

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