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Would Like to Meet
Polly James
‘It made me giggle and it made me think’ Daily Mail‘A properly good writer’ India KnightA hilarious, heart-warming read perfect for fans of Shirley Valentine and You’ve Got Mail.Could the worst thing that’s ever happened to Hannah Pinkman also turn out to be one of the best?She and her husband Dan have reached the end of the line. Bored with the same gripes, the same old arguments – in fact, bored with everything – they split up after a trivial row turns into something much more serious.Now Hannah has to make a new life for herself, but that’s not easy. She’s been so busy being a wife and mum that she’s let all her other interests slip away, along with her friends. And when Hannah is persuaded to join a dating site, her ‘best match’ is the very last person she expects it to be . . .A clever, funny and poignant novel about life after a long relationship, the importance of friendship, and rediscovering your identity.
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Source ISBN: 9780007548552
Ebook Edition © June 2016 ISBN: 9780007548569
Version 2016-05-13
Dedication (#ua164ef4d-f999-517c-b461-901504d5aca5)
For Mark, Daisy and Jack, as always – and for Becky Thomas, without whom there would be no book.
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
François de la Rochefoucauld, 1613–1680
Table of Contents
Cover (#u5e91d382-b1c2-5a75-9311-57e6950adc5e)
Title Page (#u09d15aa1-2963-5b12-8a40-3d2e4d3bde60)
Copyright (#uf352508d-090d-51d6-ad1a-3aa519831198)
Dedication (#u18bdcdf1-d313-5760-bed3-9ac3fad52a55)
Epigraph (#uf18ae715-c843-5bb0-81a0-b745bde8aa8e)
Prologue (#ud448219f-3adf-53ae-a8c8-6f80a577dffd)
Twenty-Seven Years Later… (#ue73445bd-2330-5410-b7a5-a14a2703488e)
Winter (#u6178606f-1107-5259-adea-8a10108de970)
Chapter 1 (#u3de40458-fd15-5dd8-8f99-44647f835af1)
Chapter 2 (#uc878f4c9-51a0-5732-bb5f-bf4698c09fc6)
Chapter 3 (#ufcfd0aca-656f-5416-b721-fe30140609f3)
Chapter 4 (#u99d3a607-d1e8-562f-88ff-558463659749)
Chapter 5 (#u1e94ca55-62e5-5a32-b337-a0f8dab5d373)
Chapter 6 (#u886f454b-7823-570c-9afa-c7dd6b4eb011)
Chapter 7 (#ub1e6c2bf-553c-525b-aeea-3f3c9de6557e)
Chapter 8 (#uc97d59ed-6f0d-5b02-8b40-9a1f58c1e3f3)
Chapter 9 (#uf05ae69c-37f8-54f7-aa40-92e447b5b85a)
Chapter 10 (#u1099ab1b-c41c-59fe-8e71-819734033796)
Chapter 11 (#uf55b1d9b-ffeb-5fac-990b-25e2d3a7c81e)
Spring (#uf59ee18e-a211-5deb-87c2-04a072f478cc)
Chapter 12 (#u239655a5-8f74-563b-b00d-6ad0b2fa5cd0)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Summer (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Autumn (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 58 (#litres_trial_promo)
Winter (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 59 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 60 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Keep Reading … (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Prologue (#ua164ef4d-f999-517c-b461-901504d5aca5)
