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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2017 by Claire McMillan

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  First Touchstone hardcover edition July 2017

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  Interior design by Kyle Kabel

  Jacket design by Eileen Carey

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: McMillan, Claire, author.

  Title: The necklace : a novel / Claire McMillan.

  Description: First Touchstone hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. | A Touchstone Book.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016053165 (print) | LCCN 2017003290 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501165047 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501165054 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501165061 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501165061 (eBook)

  Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Literary.

  Classification: LCC PS3613.C58539 N43 2017 (print) | LCC PS3613.C58539 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053165

  ISBN 978-1-5011-6504-7

  ISBN 978-1-5011-6506-1 (ebook)