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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jane Abbott was born in the UK, raised in the leafy suburbs of Sydney’s North Shore, and now divides her time between Melbourne and central Victoria. She has tried her hand at most things and lived in many places.

  Jane is the author of Watershed, published by Vintage Australia, the first novel in a dystopian trilogy about a savage world devoid of rain.

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  Version 1.0

  Elegy

  ePub ISBN – 9780143781585

  First published by Random House Australia in 2016

  Copyright © Jane Abbott, 2016

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  A Random House book

  Published by Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd

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  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

  Abbott, Jane, author

  Elegy/Jane Abbott

  ISBN 978 0 14378 158 5 (ebook)

  Target Audience: For young adults

  Subjects: Revenge – Juvenile fiction

  Myth – Juvenile fiction

  Fate and fatalism – Juvenile fiction

  A823.4

  Cover image: CWE61903 © Christian Weiss/Trevillion Images

  Cover design by Christabella Designs

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