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  1. Title Page
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Love
  4. Before
  5. One
  6. ONE
  7. Two
  8. TWO
  9. Three
  10. THREE
  11. Four
  12. FOUR
  13. Five
  14. FIVE
  15. Six
  16. SIX
  17. Seven
  18. SEVEN
  19. Eight
  20. EIGHT
  21. Nine
  22. NINE
  23. Ten
  24. TEN
  25. Eleven
  26. ELEVEN
  27. After
  28. One
  29. ONE
  30. Two
  31. TWO
  32. Three
  33. THREE
  34. Four
  35. FOUR
  36. Five
  37. FIVE
  38. Six
  39. SIX
  40. Seven
  41. SEVEN
  42. Eight
  43. EIGHT
  44. Nine
  45. NINE
  46. Ten
  47. TEN
  48. Eleven
  49. ELEVEN
  50. Twelve
  51. TWELVE
  52. Thirteen
  53. THIRTEEN
  54. Fourteen
  55. FOURTEEN
  56. Fifteen
  57. FIFTEEN
  58. Sixteen
  59. SIXTEEN
  60. Seventeen
  61. SEVENTEEN
  62. Eighteen
  63. EIGHTEEN
  64. Nineteen
  65. NINETEEN
  66. Twenty
  67. TWENTY
  68. Twenty-One
  69. TWENTY-ONE
  70. Twenty-Two
  71. TWENTY-TWO
  72. Twenty-Three
  73. TWENTY-THREE
  74. Twenty-Four
  75. TWENTY-FOUR
  76. Twenty-Five
  77. TWENTY-FIVE
  78. Twenty-Six
  79. TWENTY-SIX
  80. Twenty-Seven
  81. TWENTY-SEVEN
  82. Twenty-Eight
  83. TWENTY-EIGHT
  84. Eleven Months Later
  85. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  86. Copyright

The smart, funny, brilliant women who got me through the last five years without even knowing. Sunny Singh. Bim Adewunmi. Bolu Babalola. Daniellé Dash. Charlotte Abotsi. Melissa Cox. Laura Dockrill. Bethany Rutter. Alice Slater. Keris Stainton. Thank you. I wish nothing but the best for you all.

My dear friends, Val, H and Alan, who literally held me together after my mother passed away, and Angela, Suzi, Catherine, Hannah, Tracy, Duncan, Ian and Lucy, who have made Brighton feel like home. Not to forget, Scoot, Kelly, Fiona and Jade who knew me Before and know me After and every version of me inbetween.

My sweet baby angel nephews, Jacob and Nathan, who honestly couldn’t care less how many books Aunty Tanya writes, as long as we go to the Aquarium and pick shells on the beach and wrestle to Kung Fu Fighting. (Them not me.) And my brother for bringing them to see me so that we can go to the Aquarium and pick shells on the beach and wrestle to Kung Fu Fighting. I love you all so very much.

My darling dog, Frida, who I had thought I was rescuing, but ended up saving me.

Finally, Claire Wilson, who has been so kind and so patient and would not give up on me when most agents would have cut me loose for not making them any money for five years. She knew that I would write again and, as always, she was right. (Frame this, Wilson. I’ll never say that again.) I don’t even know how to begin to thank her for that, but these few sentences will have to suffice until I find a way.

So. There you go. If you’ve read Ash’s story and you’re glad I told it, these are the people that made it possible. Without them, Ash would never have found her first – and last – love and I am forever grateful.

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Copyright

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Hodder Children’s Books
This eBook edition published in 2021

Text copyright © Tanya Byrne, 2021

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Trade ISBN 978 1 444 95595 8

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ISBN 978 1 444 95596 5

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