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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Darling Girls</title>
    <subTitle>A Novel</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Hepworth, Sally</namePart>
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  <genre authority="lcgft">Detective and mystery fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Domestic fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Thrillers (Fiction)</genre>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2024</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2024</copyrightDate>
    <edition>First U.S. edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>359 pages ; 25 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>"Alicia, Jessica and Norah... have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild...In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild, and they thought they were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long, and even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself."--</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Sally Hepworth.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Adult child abuse victims</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Foster children</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Foster parents</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Girls</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Homicide</topic>
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    <topic>Murder</topic>
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    <topic>Secrecy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sisters</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PR9619.4.H48 D37 2024</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23/eng/20231205">823/.92</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781250284525</identifier>
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