The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (62 page)

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

Copyright © 2012 by Enid Shomer

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Designed by Nancy Singer

Map by Paul Pugliese

Illustration by Laura Levatino

Calligraphy by William Lung

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shomer, Enid.

The twelve rooms of the Nile / Enid Shomer.

p. cm.

1. Nightingale, Florence, 1820–1910—Fiction. 2. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821–1880—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Nile River—Fiction. 5. Egypt—History—1517–1882—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.H5783T94 2012

813'.54—dc23 2011037151

ISBN 978-1-4516-4296-4

ISBN 978-1-4516-4298-8 (ebook)