This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1980 by Nancy Hayfield

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, and in Canada by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto.

All rights reserved. Republished in the United States by Filament Books, the electronic book division of Shadow Lawn Press, LLC.

American hardcover jacket design by Fred Marcellino.

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