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And, last but not least, I would like to thank you the bookseller, you the sales representative, and you the reader. Books are the only works of art that only really come into being in the mind and soul of their audience.

If you notice any mistakes in the novel, rest assured that I am entirely to blame. Please write to the publisher, and we’ll try to rectify them in a future edition.

The Book of Dreams completes my cycle of novels about mortality. I needed to write about fear and transience and to portray the points where life and death meet as a sort of fairy-tale place brimming with parallel realities, a transitional zone among all worlds, heaven, and earth. None of us knows if this zone really exists or if it is born of our thoughts and hopes and fears.

Only now do I feel that I am emotionally free enough and, being in my forties, have enough “living” under my belt to devote my next major novel cycle to life.

About Nina George

Nina George is the author of the bestselling international phenomenon The Little Paris Bookshop, as well as numerous other books that have been published around the world. She also works as a journalist, writer and advocate for women’s rights. She lives with her husband in Berlin and Brittany.

Copyright

Originally published in Germany as Das Traumbuch by Knaur Verlag, an imprint of Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur, Munich, Germany

First published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York

First published in Great Britain by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2019

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Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4711-6833-8

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4711-6834-5

eBook ISBN: 978-1-4711-6835-2

eAudio ISBN: 978-1-4711-6837-6

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Book design by Jen Valero

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