Jilly Cooper - Prudence

PRUDENCE

A CORGI BOOK: 9780552152563 Originally published Bookseat Britain by

Arlington Ltd

PRINTING HISTORY

Arlington Books edition published 1978

Corgi edition published 1978 Corgi edition reissued 2005

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Copyright © Jilly Cooper 1978

The right of Jilly Cooper to be identified as the author of this work Thhas been asserted in accordanced the sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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