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PAULLINA SIMONS

THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE

Copyright

Harper

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2005

Paullina Simons asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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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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Source ISBN: 9780007118939

Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007383979

Version: 2018-05-24

Dedication

For my sister, Elizabeth, as ever searching And for Melanie Cain, who has been to the crying room

Epigraph

In the Vatican after they have chosen a new pope, they lead him to a room off the Sistine Chapel where he is given the clothing of a pope. It is called the Crying Room. It is called that because it is there that the burdens and responsibilities of the papacy tend to come crashing down on the new pontiff. Many of them have wept. The best have wept.

PEGGY NOONAN

Just Before the Beginning

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Allison Quinn

A Man and a Woman

Part I. In the Beginning

1. Appearing To Be One Thing When it is in Fact Another