The Comet Seekers: A Novel (36 page)

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Cover photographs: © Captain Scott / Getty Images (tent); © Science & Society Picture Library / Getty Images (comet tail and background); © Photos 12 / Alamy (landscape); © World History Archive / Alamy (comet); courtesy of the Mariners’ Museum (figures); © GelatoPlus / Getty Images (frame)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE COMET SEEKERS. Copyright © 2016 by Helen Sedgwick Limited. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sedgwick, Helen, 1978- author.

Title: The comet seekers: a novel / Helen Sedgwick.

Description: First edition. | New York : Harper, 2016. | “Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker”—Verso title page.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008606| ISBN 9780062448767 (hardback) | ISBN 9780062448781 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3619.E342 C66 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at /2016008606

EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062448781

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