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Authors: Helen Fielding
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Copyright © Helen Fielding, 2003
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Excerpt from “Whispers of Immortality” from
Collected Poems 1909-1962
by T. S. Eliot reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
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.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Fielding, Helen, date.
Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination / Helen Fielding
p. cm.
ISBN 0-670-03333-2
1. Women spies—Fiction. 2. Women journalists—Fiction. 3. Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. 4. British—Foreign countries—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6056.I4588O44 2004
823’.914—dc22 2003069469
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