Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.2287 1 - Betrayal of Innocence Incest and its Devastation

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First published in the U.S.A. by J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1978 Published simultaneously in Canada by Macmillan of Canada This revised edition first published in Pelican Books 1981

Copyright © Susan Forward and Craig Buck, 1978 Introduction copyright © John Gordon, 1981 All rights reserved

The authors and publisher would like to thank Ann Landers, the Field Newspaper Syndicate, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner for permission to use a letter from Ann Landers’ column.

Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Filmset in Monophoto Ehrhardt by Northumberland Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

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