The Bad Mothers’ Book Club

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  Copyright © Keris Stainton 2019

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  All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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  ISBN (trade paperback) 978 1 4091 7681 7

  ISBN (eBook) 978 1 4091 7587 2

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