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       The Mum Who Got her Life Back

      FIONA GIBSON

      Published by AVON

      A Division of HarperColl‌insPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperColl‌insPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Fiona Gibson 2019

      Cover design © Lisa Horton 2019

      Cover [photograph/illustration] © Shutterstock

      Fiona Gibson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008310967

      Ebook Edition © [month] [year] ISBN: 9780008310974

      Version: 2018-12-20

      For my fabulous friend Miss Jackie Brown

      Queen of Fife

       With thanks …

      To the amazing Jackie B, who manages a Mary’s Meals charity shop and let me spend a day nosing around, talking to volunteers and rummaging in the back room. I couldn’t have written this book without your help, Miss Brown! To Kath Brown and Miranda McMinn at Woman & Home magazine for getting me thinking about Happy Empty Nesters (HENs) and inadvertently inspiring this book. To Jen, Susan, Laura, Wendy and Lisa (Kath, you were missed!) for celebrating with me in Ibiza when this book was done. To Wendy (again) for a detailed description of a certain type of pokey facial, which I used almost verbatim. To my brilliant editor Rachel Faulkner-Willcocks, publicist Sabah Khan and the whole fantastic Avon team. To my super-agent Caroline Sheldon for being the best in the business. Finally, all my love to Jimmy, Sam, Dexter and Erin, my lovely family who put up with me working crazy hours and very often talking to myself.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Part One: Things that happen when your kids first leave home

       Chapter One: Nadia

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three: Jack

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six: Nadia

       Chapter Seven: Jack

       Part Two: Sex and the Empty Nester: Things to Know

       Chapter Eight: Nadia

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

      

       Chapter Twelve: Jack

      

       Chapter Thirteen: Nadia

      

       Chapter Fourteen

      

       Chapter Fifteen: Jack

      

       Chapter Sixteen

      

       Chapter Seventeen: Nadia

      

       Chapter Eighteen: Jack

      

       Chapter Nineteen: Nadia

      

       Chapter Twenty

      

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