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      4th Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.4thEstate.co.uk

      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

      Copyright © Lucie Whitehouse 2019

      Lucie Whitehouse 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

      Cover photography Face: © Plainpicture / Cristopher Civitillo; Match: Shutterstocl

      Epigraph taken from The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin, by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

      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 e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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: 9780008268992

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008269012

      Version: 2019-01-09

       Dedication

      For Bridget

       Epigraph

      I leant far out, and squinnied for a sign

      That this was still the town that had been ‘mine’

      So long, but found I wasn’t even clear

      Which side was which.

      Philip Larkin

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-one

       Chapter Twenty-two

       Chapter Twenty-three

       Chapter Twenty-four

       Chapter Twenty-five

       Chapter Twenty-six

       Chapter Twenty-seven

       Chapter Twenty-eight

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Chapter One

      Robin surveyed the table with its heap of crumpled napkins and burger boxes, stray fries and onion rings, the pile of bleeding ketchup packets. Aftermath of the cholesterol bomb. They’d had breakfast back in London, too, but as the road signs had started to portend BIRMINGHAM, her stomach started churning, and by the time they’d reached Warwick Services, it had felt completely empty or at

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