This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Rosamund Lupton
Excerpt from Afterwards copyright © 2011 by Rosamund Lipton.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in paperback in Great Britain by Piatkus Books, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK Company, London, in 2010. Published by arrangement with Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group UK.
The verse on this page is from “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894). The verse on this page is from “Sleep, Baby Sleep” (traditional).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lupton, Rosamund.
Sister : a novel / Rosamund Lupton. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Death—Fiction. 3. Murder—
Investigation— Fiction. I. Title.
PR6112.U77S57 2011
823?.92— dc22 2010025327
eISBN: 978-0-307-71653-8
This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
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Contents
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
