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4th Estate
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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016
First published in the US by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC in 2016
Copyright © Lauren Collins 2016
Cover illustration © Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Lettering © Christopher Brian King
The right of Lauren Collins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Excerpt from ‘FOR ME … FOR-MI-DA-BLE’ by Charles Aznavour, Jacques Plante,
Gene Lees © 1963 & 1974 Editions Charles Aznavour, Paris, France
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Plaza 535, King’s Road, London, SW10 0SZ
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Source ISBN: 9780008100629
Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780008100605
Version: 2017-06-28
Dedication
For Olivier
Epigraph
You are the one for me, for me, for me, formidable
But how can you
See me, see me, see me, si minable
Je ferais mieux d’aller choisir mon vocabulaire
Pour te plaire
Dans la langue de Molière
—Charles Aznavour, “For Me, For-mi-da-ble”
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
One: THE PAST PERFECT – Le Plus-que-parfait
Two: THE IMPERFECT – L’Imparfait
Three: THE PAST – Le Passé composé
Four: THE PRESENT – Le Présent
Five: THE CONDITIONAL – Le Conditionnel
Six: THE SUBJUNCTIVE – Le Subjonctif
Seven: THE FUTURE – Le Futur
Acknowledgments
About the Publisher
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