The End of the Ocean

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Originally published in Norwegian as Blå by Aschehoug, Oslo, 2017

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

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Copyright © 2017 by H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), AS Translation copyright © 2019 by Diane Oatley

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

HB ISBN: 978-1-4711-7551-0

TPB ISBN: 978-1-4711-7552-7

EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-4711-7553-4

AUDIO ISBN: 978-1-4711-7555-8

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.

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