Incendiary

Copyright

Copyright 2005 by Chris Cleave

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cleave, Chris.

Incendiary / Chris Cleave—1st American ed.

1. Terrorism victims’ families—Fiction. 2 Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. 3. Working-class families—Fiction. 4. Working-class women—Fiction. 5. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 6. Suicide bombings—Fiction. 7. London (England)—Fiction. 8. Widows—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6103.L43I53 2005

813'.6—dc22 2005044078

eISBN: 978-0-307-26429-9

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