‘Cat?’ I check my watch. ‘You really should call her Nanna or Grandma or something … I don’t know … more respectable.’

‘She won’t let me. She says it makes her feel old.’

‘She’ll be here any minute.’

‘Cat won’t make us chant before we eat again, will she?’ asks Liberty.

‘Oh, please no,’ says Nick. ‘It took hours last time.’

‘Come on, guys,’ I say. ‘You know Cat comes from a good place. And she’s been amazing for Liberty’s band. Not many teenagers get to record at Britannia Studios.’

‘Yeah, I got lucky with one of my long-lost relatives,’ says Liberty. ‘The other one … not so much. But hey. You can’t choose your family, right?’

I think, usually you can’t.

But if I had to choose Liberty again, and everything that came with her, I’d choose her a million times over.

Thank you for reading

If you have a minute, please review.

I read all my reviews (yes, the bad ones do make

me cry) and good reviews mean everything.

Reviews don’t have to be fancy. In fact, just one

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do more good than you could ever imagine.

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Acknowledgements

This book was completed just as Covid-19 hit the UK, so thanks go to more people than I can possibly include in a few paragraphs.

Thank you to hospital workers, supermarket workers, delivery drivers and everyone who is keeping our world running and risking their own health during the process.

Huge thanks to my amazing editor, Emily Kitchin, for doing a stand-out awesome job with this book and fielding questions about hairy covers. Thank you to all the team at HQ for being heroic and upbeat during a global crisis. Thank you to my partner, Demi, and my sis, Cath, for being the very best readers and critics. And thanks to all my readers.

Peace and love to you all – and hopefully by the time you read this, the pandemic will have passed, and we will be an even more connected and caring world.

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Prologue

We’re running. Along wide, tree-lined pavements, over the zebra crossing and into the park.

‘Quick, Tom.’

Tom struggles to keep up, tired little legs bobbing up and down on trimmed grass. He gasps for breath.

My ribs throb, lighting up in pain.

A Victorian bandstand and a rainbow of flowerbeds flash past. Dimly, I notice wicker picnic hampers, Prosecco, Pimm’s in plastic glasses.