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Fern Britton Summer Collection: New Beginnings, Hidden Treasures, The Holiday Home, The Stolen Weekend
Fern Britton
The best-selling novel by Fern Britton author of The Holiday Home and The Seaside Affair. Perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Celia Imrie.NEW BEGINNINGS – When Christie Lynch, journalist and single mother of two, is spotted by a talent agent during an appearance on daytime TV show, she can’t believe her luck. But as her career soars, Christie’s forced to spend more and more time away from her kids and her gorgeous squeeze Richard.Can Christie find a way to balance her role as a mother with her increasingly demanding job? And will she make it in the cut-throat world of TV?HIDDEN TREASURES – Helen Merrifield has said goodbye to her philandering husband and her swish West London house to start afresh in a postcard-perfect village in Cornwall.To her surprise, she finds herself the love-interest of two very different men: the kind, gentle, desperate-for-love-and-sex Simon, and the darkly enigmatic local historian, Piran. When her ex-husband puts in an unscheduled appearance, will Helen embrace the future, or is it too difficult to let go of the past?THE HOLIDAY HOME – Each year, the Carew sisters embark on a trip to the family holiday home, Atlantic House, set on a picturesque Cornish cliff.Hard-nosed Prudence is married to the meek and mild Francis, but she’s about to get a shock reminder that you should never take anything for granted. Constance, loving wife to philandering husband Greg, has always been outwitted by her manipulative sibling, but this year she’s finally had enough.When a long-buried secret comes out of the closet, will this one holiday push them all over the edge, or can Constance and Pru leave the past where it belongs?THE STOLEN WEEKEND - Best friends Penny Leighton and Helen Merrifield have swapped their hectic London lives for the leisurely pace of life in the pretty Cornish village of Pendruggan.But sometimes the grass is always greener, and the two women cook up a scheme to leave their Pendruggan men behind and get back to London for a weekend of blissful indulgence. Will Penny and Helen’s stolen weekend be everything they’ve dreamed of, or something else entirely?
FERN BRITTON
The Fern Britton Summer Collection:
New BeginningsHidden TreasuresThe Holiday HomeThe Stolen Weekend
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Source ISBN: 9780007383801, 9780007419418, 9780007468553, 9780007513222
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New Beginnings (#u45822255-b573-5bfd-aeac-a38c24282392)
Hidden Treasures (#u4d14f498-79e6-5120-a978-36cac5e51461)
The Holiday Home (#u46fe0a19-6016-5f76-bb20-7e490ab268f7)
The Stolen Weekend (#u87ff4f7a-9d09-5ee8-9ab1-fe88c44c790a)
Keep Reading (#ucee5f49e-9d68-5110-a093-d2d0e9a2fb92)
About the Author (#ulink_7de5cb51-d062-5503-9432-a133584b9b98)
Also by the Author (#ulink_dba3371d-8583-5859-b436-fc66ae3c9e76)
About the Publisher (#ulink_0f3e310d-721d-5af8-b736-96e32652fcc5)
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FERN BRITTON
New Beginnings
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
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This paperback edition 2011
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2011
Copyright © Fern Britton 2011
Fern Britton 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
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 nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Ebook Edition © MAY 2015 ISBN: 9780007383801
Version: 2017-11-21
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DEDICATION (#ulink_54c07248-8cdf-577a-af8d-4cd3ab50bbc9)
To you, the reader – thank you! Xx
CONTENTS
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Now … (#ulink_86df44c7-620b-5cc9-8c7d-3e38019d1fea)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 (#ulink_9590e58e-9898-5713-8bf5-b2de9592df94)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_2fda203b-56f7-56eb-af96-bf465d68175f)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_5f21b610-1280-55dc-9585-4fcbdcb3747c)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_33cc75cb-ffef-56a6-890e-59db40437653)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_01a768b2-3b95-525d-b210-fac7f21aae5e)
Chapter 7 (#ulink_c2b36c30-518e-51d1-8248-399e3b656b74)
Chapter 8 (#ulink_c6b6d5fa-940b-545d-bcf7-b1b9a32a61c7)
Chapter 9 (#ulink_6c5f9a1f-ff76-5000-a1b4-f3ebc04d4834)
Chapter 10 (#ulink_58232f32-e6e5-5ac1-b930-c0c29fd92151)
Chapter 11 (#ulink_346d5160-e1dc-5578-994d-b609adbc3e4d)
Chapter 12 (#ulink_2400450d-4386-5a8e-8d7d-5e65bee0ef9e)
Chapter 13 (#ulink_c15fc3cd-e695-550c-93c0-cac526fd8a98)
Chapter 14 (#ulink_6fdac5da-1c0d-5665-b282-6398df916f7e)
Chapter 15 (#ulink_b568dd36-839f-5168-a239-1b3c199fdbd1)
Chapter 16 (#ulink_ddf69509-794c-5b61-b211-db747eb03246)
Chapter 17 (#ulink_41ef8be7-4855-5e8c-9b56-d5186eab37a5)
Chapter 18 (#ulink_59bb874a-26f1-590b-b540-685afe24f5a9)
Chapter 19 (#ulink_93ee7d80-6fb2-5f4f-9a0d-24da70e3a96e)
Chapter 20 (#ulink_dc38650b-a223-5708-94dd-a59b16ba797f)
Chapter 21 (#ulink_7c2e163d-dc92-59fd-8a14-3ff319d9e58d)
Chapter 22 (#ulink_a3111654-9534-595b-958a-984bdb4f55df)
Chapter 23 (#ulink_c9a1cdf2-2e8c-5c56-a86e-aa7ea70fdd04)
Chapter 24 (#ulink_e967a436-d6ba-5c37-b191-b301cd46c94d)
Chapter 25 (#ulink_9c5fdc74-2e3c-54e9-8538-79cfb34a13ba)
Chapter 26 (#ulink_2f72b5e9-0d90-523d-9623-074a70366ca4)
Chapter 27 (#ulink_63900393-7735-5be4-bb3d-e56a96d88824)
Chapter 28 (#ulink_cce508e7-705b-56e8-ba2b-7574fd69f5a2)
Chapter 29 (#ulink_99da89ee-6144-5d6a-8d2d-d6a81b5dd95c)
Chapter 30 (#ulink_a7b84671-89cc-5e91-b9bc-45372289a5c4)
Chapter 31 (#ulink_77d08fcc-bdd0-5390-9667-62fca02669f2)
Chapter 32 (#ulink_1678cced-214d-5419-bc1f-cc125616b333)
Chapter 33 (#ulink_6283548f-83dc-5ec8-a961-3eae945992b2)
Acknowledgements (#ulink_abc10eb8-8838-5129-a43b-11ff91a51fc0)
THEN … (#ulink_9166b7ce-4f14-5f4a-ab90-d99ea69b808a)
‘I want Marmite on my toast. Not Dairylea,’ Libby yelled downstairs at the top of her voice.
The day Christie’s life changed for ever, began just like any other. Her nine-year-old daughter was sulking on her bed.
Nick called up to her: ‘Darling, we don’t have Marmite. Mummy’s told you she’ll get some later. How about honey? Now, come and give your old dad a kiss goodbye, gorgeous girl.’
‘No.’ Libby already had a very definite mind of her own.
‘Well, you’ll have to go hungry, get weak and feeble, and you won’t be able to go out on your bike with me at the weekend.’
‘Don’t care.’
