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Copyright © 2018 by Emma Rous
Excerpt from The Perfect Guests copyright © 2020 by Emma Rous
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rous, Emma, author.
Title: The au pair / Emma Rous.
Description: First edition. | New York: Berkley, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058797 | ISBN 9780440000457 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780440000471 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Twins—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Parents—Death—Fiction. | Au pairs—Fiction. | Family secrets—Fiction. | England—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6118.O886 A9 2019 | DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058797
Little, Brown Book Group UK trade paperback edition / December 2018
Berkley trade paperback edition / January 2019
Cover design by Colleen Reinhart
Cover art: Image of young woman by hobo_018/iStock; Background beach by Vladimir Serov / Getty Images
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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