Sunrise

by Rosie Thomas

  Also by Rosie Thomas

  Celebration

  Follies

  Sunrise

  The White Dove

  Strangers

  Bad Girls, Good Women

  A Woman of Our Times

  All My Sins Remembered

  Other People’s Marriages

  A Simple Life

  Every Woman Knows a Secret

  Moon Island

  White

  The Potter’s House

  If My Father Loved Me

  Sun At Midnight

  Iris and Ruby

  Constance

  Lovers and Newcomers

  The Kashmir Shawl

  The Illusionists

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  First published in the United Kingdom in 1984 by Fontana Paperbacks

  Copyright © Rosie Thomas 1984

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  Rosie Thomas asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

  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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  Ebook Edition © MAR 2014 ISBN: 9780007560615

  Version: [2014-02-12]

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