This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Tucker, Heather, 1954–, author
The clay girl : a novel / Heather Tucker.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77041-303-0 (paperback);
ISBN 978-1-77090-918-2 (PDF);
ISBN 978-1-77090-917-5 (ePub)
I. Title.
PS8639.U34C53 2016 C813’.6 C2016-902378-8
C2016-902379-6
Editor for the press: Michael Holmes
Cover design: Michel Vrana
Cover image: seahorse © nLd/Shutterstock
Interior images: “Hippocampus” from Arcana, or, The museum of natural history by James Stratford, c. 1811, courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Author photo © Brian D. Tucker
Type: Rachel Ironstone
The publication of The Clay Girl has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Ce livre est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada. We also acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,737 individual artists and 1,095 organizations in 223 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.1 million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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