London: Viking, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 1st impression. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine in near Fine dust-jacket. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket.

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When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That, in fact, he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?

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Bookseller: The Glass Key (FR)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 95342
Title: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
Author: Vine, Barbara
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0670879274
ISBN 13: 9780670879274
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1998

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