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      TILLY BAGSHAWE

       Friends and Rivals

      Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London, SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

      Copyright © Tilly Bagshawe 2012

      Tilly Bagshawe asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      FIRST EDITION

      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.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007326532

      Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007341894

      Version: 2016-08-31

      For my children: Sefi, Zac, Theo and Summer.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Part One

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Part Two

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Part Three

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Tilly Bagshawe

       Keep Reading page for THE INHERITANCE

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

      CHAPTER ONE

      Catriona Charles sucked in her stomach as hard as she could and yanked on the zip of her burgundy velvet dress. It had fitted her perfectly when she’d bought it in Oxford four weeks ago, but now voluptuous folds of flesh seemed to be creeping out everywhere, like excess pastry flopping over the top of a pie dish. Tomorrow, without fail, she would go on a diet. No more Hobnobs. Or cheese. And she would cut out booze for a month. Well, perhaps not a whole month. Two weeks would probably be enough to make a difference.

      ‘Can I help? Two hands are better than one.’

      Ivan Charles, Catriona’s husband of fifteen years, walked up behind her. Pulling the two sides of fabric together, he pulled the zip to the top and fastened the hook and eye.

      ‘There.’ He smiled triumphantly. ‘You look gorgeous.’

      He was right. With her tangle of honey-blonde hair, full, sensual

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