Please Don't Make Me Go

by Fenton, John

  Acknowledgement

  Iwould like to thank Harry Bingham and Helena Drysdale for all their initial assistance, and my agent Euan Thorneycroft for all his help. I would also like to thank Natalie Jerome and the team at HarperCollins for all the help and advice that made the publication of this book possible and Martin Noble, my editor, for all his efforts.

  Copyright

  This book is based on the author’s experiences. In order to protect privacy, some names, identifying characteristics, dialogue and details have been changed or reconstructed.

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  ePub edition June 2008 ISBN- 9780007283835

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