Roxanne Bouchard - The Coral Bride

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First published in the United Kingdom by Orenda Books 2020

Originally published in French as La mariée de corail by Éditions Libre Expression 2020

Copyright © 2020, Roxanne Bouchard and Libre Expression, Montreal, Canada

English translation © David Warriner 2020

Roxanne Bouchard has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publishers.

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

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978–1–913193–32–4

eISBN 978–1–913193–33–1

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We would like to thank the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) for its financial support