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The unforgettable new novel from Lucy Robinson. Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? It's proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Scratch beneath the surface and nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate, two old friends, aren't entirely sure who they are any more. Perhaps you can work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good ... A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts. We defy you to guess the twist ... Lucy Robinson is the author of The Greatest Love Story of All Time, A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger and The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me. Lucy worked in theatre and then television documentaries before starting a blog for Marie Claire about her laughably unsuccessful foray into the world of online dating. She did not meet a man during this time but she did become a novelist: every cloud has a silver lining. She now lives in Bristol with her partner, The Man, whom she met when she took off to Buenos Aires to become a bohemian writer in 2010. Praise for Lucy Robinson: 'We want to climb the highest mountain and shout about this book to the world. We laughed, we cried, we fell in love - and we haven't stopped going on about it ever since!' Heat 'Romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious' Cosmopolitan 'One of Britain's most talented rising stars' Huffington Post.
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I've been struggling with reading this past month or so, every time I seem to pick up a book my mind would wander and I'd lose momentum. This wonderful book captured my attention from the very outset.
The story is built around two different young women, Kate who has run away to a new job in an equestrian centre and Annie, somewhat of a free spirit who works as a masseuse in London. Both women have a secret that we are made aware of early in the book but not told specifically what they are.
The stories of both women are told in alternate chapters and as they both find themselves drawn to mysterious men and changes in their circumstances. Kate is attracted to her new boss Mark, an elite rider and married man whilst Annie is swept of her feet by entrepreneur Stephen.
The writing in this book was so very engaging. the weaving of both stories is so elegant that it leads it's readers down a path that we as readers fall into a sense of curiosity as to what is going to unfold and a false belief that we might be able to guess and then suddenly comes a twist do unexpected it changes the book so suddenly and skilfully I actually had to go back and re-read a page or so before I fully understood the full magnitude of the twist.
This book was precisely what I needed to salvage me from my reading slump (I'd thought an Outlander novel would do it but I had to stop half way). It was brilliant written. Well worth reading. I haven't read anything from this author before but I certainly will be again.