The Girl on the Beach

  13 Charlotte Mews

  London W1T 4EJ

  www.allisonandbusby.com

  First published Great Britain in 2012.

  This ebook edition first published in 2012.

  Copyright © 2012 by MARY NICHOLS

  The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978–0–7490–1191–8