Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings (27 page)

Katie Rhodes, Claire Potter, and Anna Linwood read the first finished draft for me, when it was just a bunch of loose pages in a blue folder. Their encouragement, and well-placed criticism, was exactly what I needed. If they ever feel like jobs as book critics, it’s a career option.

The publication of this book was a fairy tale in itself. And so I have to thank my own fairy godmothers: Barry Cunningham, Imogen Cooper, and Rachel Hickman in the UK, and Siobhán McGowan in the US. Their vision and passion has been my happily ever after.

I couldn’t have created
Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings
without the help of all these wonderful people. Any mistakes and omissions are my own.

Copyright

Text © 2010 by Sophia Bennett
Cover Photos by Michael Frost
Cover design by Steve Scott

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Threads
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bennett, Sophia.
Sequins, secrets, and silver linings / by Sophia Bennett. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Three fourteen-year-old friends with very different interests befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London.
ISBN 978-0-545-24241-7
[1. Fashion—Fiction 2. Refugees—Fiction 3. Friendship—Fiction 4. London—Fiction 5. England—Fiction] I. Title.
PZ7.B44705 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010003952

First American edition, January 2011

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