Элеонора Браун – The Light of Paris (страница 1)

Copyright

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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copyright © Eleanor Brown 2016

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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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Sourse ISBN: 9780007393688

Ebook Edition © February 2016 ISBN: 9780007393695

Version: 2016-06-06

Dedication

For my parents and my grandparents, especially my grandmothers:

Madeline Mercier Brown and Catherine McReynolds Barnes

Epigraph

Paris in the rain is still Paris.

—Catherine Rémine McReynolds,

November 18, 1923

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

One: Madeleine – 1999

Two: Margie – 1919

Three: Madeleine – 1999

Four: Margie – 1924

Five: Madeleine – 1999

Six: Margie – 1924

Seven: Madeleine – 1999

Eight: Margie – 1924

Nine: Madeleine – 1999

Ten: Margie – 1924

Eleven: Madeleine – 1999

Twelve: Margie – 1924

Thirteen: Madeleine – 1999

Fourteen: Margie – 1924

Fifteen: Madeleine – 1999

Sixteen: Margie – 1924

Seventeen: Madeleine – 1999

Eighteen: Margie – 1924

Nineteen: Madeleine – 1999

Twenty: Margie – 1924

Twenty-One: Madeleine – 1999

Twenty-Two: Margie – 1924

Twenty-Three: Madeleine – 1999

Twenty-Four: Margie – 1924

Twenty-Five: Madeleine – 1999

Twenty-Six: Margie – 1924

Twenty-Seven: Madeleine – 1999

Twenty-Eight: Margie – 1924

Twenty-Nine: Madeleine – 1999

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

About the Author

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