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They went inside, where she had made coffee. The last time they had been together there had been no real coffee; now, such luxury. There would still be coffee, and water to make it with, and people to drink it. Those things had been threatened, but now the threat was gone.
‘When do you have to leave for Glasgow?’ she asked.
He hesitated, and she realised that there were times when something must be said, something wildly inappropriate – forward, really.
‘Don’t go,’ she said. ‘Stay. Just stay. We could get the orchestra going again.’
He looked at his son, and then looked back at her. She rose to her feet and picked up the little boy and kissed him.
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Books in the Quick Reads series
| Amy’s Diary | Maureen Lee |
| Beyond the Bounty | Tony Parsons |
| Bloody Valentine | James Patterson |
| Buster Fleabags | Rolf Harris |
| The Cave | Kate Mosse |
| Chickenfeed | Minette Walters |
| Cleanskin | Val McDermid |
| The Cleverness of Ladies | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Clouded Vision | Linwood Barclay |
| A Cool Head | Ian Rankin |
| The Dare | John Boyne |
| Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes | Justin Richards |
| Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek | Gareth Roberts |
| Doctor Who: Made of Steel | Terrance Dicks |
| Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Doctor Who: Revenge of the Judoon | Terrance Dicks |
| Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games | Jacqueline Rayner |
| A Dream Come True | Maureen Lee |
| Follow Me | Sheila O’Flanagan |
| Full House | Maeve Binchy |
| Get the Life You Really Want | James Caan |
| Girl on the Platform | Josephine Cox |
| The Grey Man | Andy McNab |
| Hell Island | Matthew Reilly |
| Hello Mum | Bernardine Evaristo |
| How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps | John Bird |
| Humble Pie | Gordon Ramsay |
| Jack and Jill | Lucy Cavendish |
| Kung Fu Trip | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| Last Night Another Soldier | Andy McNab |
| Life’s New Hurdles | Colin Jackson |
| Life’s Too Short | Val McDermid, Editor |
| Lily | Adèle Geras |
| The Little One | Lynda La Plante |
| Men at Work | Mike Gayle |
| Money Magic | Alvin Hall |
| My Dad’s a Policeman | Cathy Glass |
| One Good Turn | Chris Ryan |
| The Perfect Holiday | Cathy Kelly |
| The Perfect Murder | Peter James |
| Quantum of Tweed: The Man with the Nissan Micra | Conn Iggulden |
| RaW Voices: True Stories of Hardship | Vanessa Feltz |
| Reading My Arse! | Ricky Tomlinson |
| Star Sullivan | Maeve Binchy |
| Strangers on the 16:02 | Priya Basil |
| The Sun Book of Short Stories | |
| Survive the Worst and Aim for the Best | Kerry Katona |
| The 10 Keys to Success | John Bird |
| Tackling Life | Charlie Oatway |
| Traitors of the Tower | Alison Weir |
| Trouble on the Heath | Terry Jones |
| Twenty Tales of the War Zone | John Simpson |
| We Won the Lottery | Danny Buckland |
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