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The Love Island: The laugh out loud romantic comedy you have to read this summer
Kerry Fisher
“Funny, warm and beautifully written – I loved it.” MILLY JOHNSONCan one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Veronica Henry meets Erica James in this gorgeous summer read.Previously published as The Island EscapeOctavia Shelton thought she’d have a different life. One where she travelled the world with an exotic husband and free-spirited children in tow.Instead she’s married to safe, reliable Jonathan, and her life now consists of packed lunches, school runs and mountains of dirty washing. She’s not unhappy. It’s just that she can barely recognise herself.So as Octavia watches her best friend’s marriage break up, it gets her thinking. What if life could be different? What if she could escape and rediscover the person she used to be? Escape back to the island she visited years ago? And what if the man she used to love was there waiting for her?
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First published as The Island Escape in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2018
Copyright © Kerry Fisher 2015
Cover design © Alison Groom
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Ebook Edition © May 2015
ISBN: 978-0-00-757026-3
Source ISBN: 978-0-00-757025-6
Version 2018-07-03
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For Steve, Cameron, Michaela and Poppy
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I was wearing the wrong bra for sitting in a police cell.
It was sod’s law that I’d chosen today to try out my early Christmas present from Scott. But I hadn’t dressed thinking the police would confiscate my blouse as ‘evidence’. I’d dressed thinking that sexy underwear might put my husband into a more festive frame of mind.
When we arrived at the police station, the officer who’d arrested me, PC Julie Pikestaff, led me into the custody suite. I was more used to suites containing champagne and roses.
