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Authors: Annie Groves
I would like to thank the following for their invaluable help:
Lynne Drew, who has supported and encouraged me so marvellously.
Maxine Hitchcock, my truly wonderful editor who has the patience of a hundred saints, and who has held my hand through the births of Ellie, Connie and now Hettie.
Samantha Bell for her skilled copy-editing.
Everyone at HarperCollins who has made it possible for Hettie to reach publication safely.
Tony, who does so much of my research for me.
My writing friends, whose support and kindness means so very much to me.
But most of all my thanks to my readers. Author, editor, publishers, researchers â we are all part of a team that creates a book, but you, the reader, via your enjoyment of it are the one who breathes life into it.
HETTIE OF HOPE STREET
Annie Groves lives in the North West and has done so all of her life. Like her first two sagas,
Ellie Pride
and
Connie's Courage, Hettie of Hope Street
takes place in the tumultuous years leading up to, during, and after the First World War. Annie has drawn upon her own family's history, picked up from listening to her grandmother's stories when she was a child, for inspiration.
Ellie Pride
Connie's Courage
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Annie Groves 2005
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EPub Edition © JUNE 2010 ISBN: 978-0-007-39207-0
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