Heartbreaker (69 page)

ALSO BY SUSAN HOWATCH

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

2005 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2003 by Leaftree Ltd.

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Extracts from
Mud and Stars: The Impact of Hospice Experience on
the Church’s Ministry of Healing
used with kind permission of OICPC.
Extracts from
A Time to Heal: A Report for the House of Bishops on the
Healing Ministry
are copyright © The Archbishops’ Council,
2000, and are reproduced by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Howatch, Susan.
The heartbreaker: a novel / Susan Howatch.
p. cm.

1. Church fund-raising—Fiction. 2. Spiritual healing—Fiction.
3. Male prostitutes—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction.
5. Ex-prostitutes—Fiction. 6. Healers—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6058.O912H43 2004
823’.914—dc22 2003062493

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