The Boy That Never Was (28 page)

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First published in the United States of America by Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2014
First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 2014

Copyright © Karen Gillece and Paul Perry, 2014

Cover images © Jose Figueroa/Getty Images

The line from the Patrick Kavanagh poem ‘On Raglan Road’ is reprinted from
Collected Poems
, edited by Antoinette Quinn (Allen Lane, 2004), by the kind permission of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency

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ISBN: 978-1-405-91292-1