PRAISE FOR AMANDA PROWSE

‘Amanda Prowse is the queen of family drama’

Daily Mail

‘A deeply emotional, unputdownable read’

Red

‘Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure’

The Lady

‘Amanda Prowse is the queen of heartbreak fiction’

The Mail online

‘Captivating, heartbreaking and superbly written’

Closer

‘Uplifting and positive but you may still need a box of tissues’

Cosmopolitan

‘You’ll fall in love with this’

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‘Powerful and emotional drama that packs a real punch’

Heat

‘Warmly accessible but subtle . . . moving and inspiring’

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‘Magical’

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ALSO BY AMANDA PROWSE

Novels

Poppy Day

What Have I Done?

Clover’s Child

A Little Love

Will You Remember Me?

Christmas for One

A Mother’s Story

Perfect Daughter

The Second Chance Café

Three and a Half Heartbeats

Another Love

My Husband’s Wife

I Won’t Be Home for Christmas

The Food of Love

The Idea of You

The Art of Hiding

Anna

Theo

How to Fall in Love Again

The Coordinates of Loss

The Girl in the Corner

The Things I Know

The Light in the Hallway

The Day She Came Back

An Ordinary Life

Waiting To Begin

Novellas

The Game

Something Quite Beautiful

A Christmas Wish

Ten Pound Ticket

Imogen’s Baby

Miss Potterton’s Birthday Tea

Mr Portobello’s Morning Paper

Memoir

The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey (with Josiah Hartley)

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COPYRIGHT PAGE

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

Text copyright © 2022 by Lionhead Media Ltd

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

Published by Lake Union Publishing, Seattle

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ISBN-13: 9781542024785

ISBN-10: 1542024781

Cover design by Ghost Design

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

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PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE MERRIN

CHAPTER TWO MERRIN

CHAPTER THREE JARVIS

CHAPTER FOUR MERRIN

CHAPTER FIVE JARVIS

CHAPTER SIX MERRIN

CHAPTER SEVEN MERRIN

CHAPTER EIGHT BEN

CHAPTER NINE MERRIN

CHAPTER TEN MERRIN

CHAPTER ELEVEN JARVIS

CHAPTER TWELVE MERRIN

CHAPTER THIRTEEN MERRIN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN MIGUEL

CHAPTER FIFTEEN MERRIN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN MIGUEL

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN MERRIN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN MIGUEL

CHAPTER NINETEEN MERRIN

CHAPTER TWENTY DIGBY

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE MERRIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO MERRIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE MERRIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR JARVIS

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE MERRIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX MERRIN

EPILOGUE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you . . .’

William Shakespeare

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