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Authors: Rachel Hore
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I would like to thank a number of people who
helped during the writing of this book, though any mistakes are my own. Dr. Hilary Johnson for her suggestions and support, Dave Balcombe, astronomer, for his excellent advice, Jaqi Clayton, who knows all about naming stars, staff at Bonham’s auctioneers, particularly Simon Roberts for information about procedure, staff at Sculthorpe Moor Community Reserve for information about moths, Cindy Hurn
for visualization techniques. Great thanks are due as ever to my agent, Sheila Crowley, and her colleagues at Curtis Brown, all at Simon & Schuster, U.K., but especially Suzanne Baboneau, Libby Yevtushenko, Sue Stephens and Jeff Jamieson, and my copyeditor, Clare Parkinson. At Henry Holt, my U.S. publisher, I am grateful to my editor, Aaron Schlechter. Thank you to David, and also to Felix, Benjy
and Leo, who, like little Max Wickham, will insist on playing with their football indoors!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R
ACHEL
H
ORE
worked in London publishing for many years before moving with her family to Norwich, where she teaches publishing at the University of East Anglia. She is married to writer D. J. Taylor and they have three sons. This is her fourth novel.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hore, Rachel.
A place of secrets : a novel / Rachel Hore.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8050-9449-7
1. Auctioneers—Fiction. 2. Antiques—Evaluation—Fiction. 3. Widows—Fiction. 4. Family secrets—Fiction. 5. Follies (Architecture)—Fiction. 6. Norfolk (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6108.O668P57 2012
823'.92—dc22
2011021669
First U.S. Edition 2012
eISBN 978-1-4299-5012-1
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