Sins (61 page)

I would like to thank the following people for their invaluable and much appreciated help:

Teresa Chris, my agent.

Maxine Hitchcock and all her staff at Avon, for their patience and understanding.

Yvonne Holland, who as always, has done a wonderful job copyediting and alerting me to any factual errors.

Tony Bosson, my business partner for all his hard work in helping me to write
Sins
.

Penny Jordan has been writing for over 25 years. In that time, she has written over 170 books and sold almost 90 million copies worldwide. She also writes under the name Annie Groves and is a mentor for new writers.
Sins
is set in the rag trade and inspired by the silk manufacturing industry in Macclesfield in Cheshire where Penny lived for 25 years with her late husband. She still lives in Cheshire today. For more information on Penny, please go to www.penny-jordan.co.uk

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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