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Take Me Home

Karly Lane
Chapters (36)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. TITLE PAGE
  4. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  5. DEDICATION
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. FIVE
  11. SIX
  12. SEVEN
  13. EIGHT
  14. NINE
  15. TEN
  16. ELEVEN
  17. TWELVE
  18. THIRTEEN
  19. FOURTEEN
  20. FIFTEEN
  21. SIXTEEN
  22. SEVENTEEN
  23. EIGHTEEN
  24. NINETEEN
  25. TWENTY
  26. TWENTY-ONE
  27. TWENTY-TWO
  28. TWENTY-THREE
  29. TWENTY-FOUR
  30. TWENTY-FIVE
  31. TWENTY-SIX
  32. TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. EPILOGUE
  35. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  36. SNEAK PEEK: A STONE’S THROW AWAY

COVER PAGE

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Praise for Take Me Home

‘A thoroughly enjoyable and life-affirming tale … Down to earth, heartwarming and wholesome, Take Me Home signals a lovely new direction for Karly Lane.’ —Mrs B’s Book Reviews

‘Full of romance, humour and a touch of the supernatural, this is another engaging tale by the reliable Karly Lane.’ —Canberra Weekly

‘As always, Karly Lane delivers on the promise of a novel that will sweep you away on a journey … a beautiful story about life, love and finding yourself.’ —Noveltea Corner

‘I didn’t want the story to end … Karly Lane has proven herself time again in rural romance and now she has smashed the contemporary fiction genre with Take Me Home.’ —Beauty and Lace

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karly Lane lives on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most—being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia.

Also by Karly Lane

North Star

Morgan’s Law

Bridie’s Choice

Poppy’s Dilemma

Gemma’s Bluff

Tallowood Bound

Second Chance Town

Third Time Lucky

If Wishes Were Horses

Six Ways to Sunday

Someone Like You

The Wrong Callahan

Mr Right Now

Return to Stringybark Creek

Fool Me Once

Something Like This

Take Me Home

Once Burnt, Twice Shy

TITLE PAGE

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COPYRIGHT PAGE

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

This edition published in 2022

First published in 2021

Copyright © Karly Lane 2021

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency (Australia) under the Act.

Allen & Unwin

83 Alexander Street

Crows Nest NSW 2065

Australia

Phone: (61 2) 8425 0100

Email: [email protected]

A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia

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ISBN 978 1 76106 706 8

eISBN 978 1 76106 160 8

Set by Bookhouse, Sydney

Cover design: Emily O’Neill

Cover photos: Shutterstock (woman, foliage and sky); Getty (background and thistles)

DEDICATION

In memory of my ancestors—
long gone but not forgotten

ONE

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