The Girl With Nine Wigs (25 page)

SOPHIE VAN DER STAP
was twenty-one years old when she was diagnosed with cancer.
The Girl with Nine Wigs
is the memoir of a girl struggling to survive but, even more, to live through her nine invented characters. The experience changed her life, and Sophie has worked as a writer ever since. She has published her first novel,
And What If This Were Love
, and is currently working on her second. She lives in Paris, France. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Epigraph

Begin Reading

Epilogue

Postscript

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

 

Note to the Reader: The events in this book took place prior to Lance Armstrong's admission of doping. While I do not condone his behavior, I continue to admire him for what he has overcome, for being a cancer survivor.

THE GIRL WITH NINE WIGS.
Copyright © 2013, 2015 by Sophie van der Stap. English translation copyright © 2015 Charlotte Caroline Jongejan and Sophie van der Stap. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

The English translation is an amended and updated version of the Dutch language text of the work.

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Cover design by James Iacobelli

Cover photographs of wigs © Shutterstock

The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-1-250-05223-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-5370-6 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781466853706

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Originally published in the Netherlands by Prometheus Amsterdam under the title
Meisje met negen pruiken
copyright © 2007 Sophie van der Stap.

First U.S. Edition: September 2015