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The incident with the barrage balloon was inspired by an anecdote in
Sheep, Steam and Shows
by Gerald Tyler.

I am indebted to North Yorkshire County Libraries for always finding my obscure requests, especially the Settle branch for showing me the
Craven Herald and Pioneer
articles and the local archive of the Giggleswick total eclipse in 1927.

Most of the information on the secret Auxiliary Units of the Home Guard came from www.auxunit.org.uk. My hidden bunkers in the Dales are fictitious. I’d love to know if there are any still extant.

This story was sometimes written to the accompaniment of Edward Elgar’s
Introduction and Adagio for Strings, Opus 47:
the background music to Barry Cockcroft’s inspirational Yorkshire TV documentary,
Too Long a Winter
(1974).

Many thanks to my editor, Maxine Hitchcock and the team at Avon, to Judith Murdoch, my patient agent, Elizabeth Gill and Trisha Ashley of the 500 Club and Diane Allen for their constant encouragement and support.

A special thanks also to Jenny Hall, Joyce Price, June Parrington, Kate Croll and the late Kathleen Firth for their friendship and enthusiasm and to David and all my family for just being there.

About the Author

Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire of Scottish parents, and is married with four grown-up children and four grandchildren. She writes full time from a haunted farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales and from the slopes of an olive grove in Crete. For further information on Leah Fleming, please visit www.leahfleming.co.uk

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First published in Great Britain by Harper Collins in 2013

NOBODY’S GIRL

Cover [photograph/illustration] © Benedict Winter

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Ltd 2009

THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW

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Ltd 2011

RUBY

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Ltd 2012

THE GIRL FROM WORLD’S END

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Kitty Neale asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of NOBODY’S GIRL

Pam Weaver asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW

Marie Maxwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of RUBY

Leah Fleming asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of THE GIRL FROM WORLD’S END

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

Ebook Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9780007532445

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