Hiding From the Light. Barbara Erskine
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998 This edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Barbara Erskine 1998
Maps and chapter head illustrations by Rex Nicholls
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Cover photographs © Gary Ombler/Getty Images (woman); Stuart Brill/Trevillion Images (chapel with mist); John James/Alamy (grave stone)
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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: 9780007288632
Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007320974
Version: 2017-09-08
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
The Book of Common Prayer
He who has once seen a ghost is never again as though he had not seen a ghost.
Cardinal John Henry Newman, 1870
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
I John 1,5
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