The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker: The most heart-warming book you’ll read this year

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The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker: The most heart-warming book you’ll read this year
Jenni Keer

‘A charming read!’ Heidi Swain‘If there is one book that you read at the start of 2019, please promise me it will be this.’ Karen, Netgalley reviewerMeet Lucy, aged 25, and Brenda, aged 79. Neighbours, and unlikely friends.Lucy Baker is not your usual 25-year-old. She is more at home reading and knitting in her cluttered little flat than going out partying and socialising.79-year-old Brenda is full of wise and wonderful advice, but when she’s diagnosed with dementia her life begins to change. Before her memories slip away for ever, Brenda is desperate to fulfil one last wish – to see Lucy happy.Gifting Lucy the locket that helped Brenda find her own true love, she hopes to push her reticent neighbour in the right direction. But is Lucy Baker ready for the opportunities and heartbreaks of the real world? It’s about time she put her knitting needles aside and found out…The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker will be the most charming, heart-warming and feel-good novel you will read this year, perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan and Gail Honeyman.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copyright © Jenni Keer 2019

Cover design © Becky Glibbery 2019

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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.

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Ebook Edition © January 2019; ISBN: 9780008309688

Version: 2018-12-05

To Lauren for starting me on the journey, and Linda for helping me get there.

Table of Contents

Cover (#u7a331dd9-aeef-570e-a02e-32bfc07205c6)

Title Page (#u4e5d83ce-0a37-5c37-a5c6-4736cf101a6b)

Copyright (#u240292fc-9d69-51cb-a45d-a233c2655521)

Dedication (#u8e4dfe6a-2197-587f-ae49-4f19d1963a00)

Chapter 1 (#ud8e2cb99-ebd9-512a-850b-80b360b730a4)

Chapter 2 (#ub6e12b5b-ce14-522f-bb15-0ab00b23524c)

Chapter 3 (#u60db2544-2283-5c7d-b9ff-c11e3458ba44)

Chapter 4 (#u7003abd3-8870-521b-add4-7f0b80a3fa36)

Chapter 5 (#u1833a572-4c56-568b-b6ab-58b666392841)

Chapter 6 (#ua0e691be-9668-5d5e-86dc-032de4411df8)

Chapter 7 (#u5423fe2e-6f6e-5663-be67-7f881f1ec37a)

Chapter 8 (#ufa2679be-fadc-5bdb-9150-c1a810137f79)

Chapter 9 (#ua93003cf-379c-5941-9d9e-9dad0820acf9)

Chapter 10 (#u026933c7-2bd7-5064-9ea9-4da10dff1b07)

Chapter 11 (#u6bf8a342-c5bf-5581-a6e7-193e006e8ee2)

Chapter 12 (#u147cee66-60fb-5667-b3f9-38a2c8288bf4)

Chapter 13 (#u5c1d0766-27d2-5c39-9ebf-44e5f0df14c0)

Chapter 14 (#u86f37dec-9e3b-5d3f-a705-58874a3f8d9a)

Chapter 15 (#u00fbf410-79f5-50e9-9976-e0badbe08b78)

Chapter 16 (#u3414e686-a57b-5910-b8b9-6cfa73cd6258)

Chapter 17 (#u3c250c5b-b400-5993-9f7b-7d28b1fd86bf)

Chapter 18 (#ubf501499-9ade-523c-a5f9-c83a4bf890d3)

Chapter 19 (#u79f5944c-4292-5ebb-b1f5-b0b782a2e912)

Chapter 20 (#ub274192f-ce3d-5f81-bafc-0956a6591346)

Chapter 21 (#u2ee3391d-a75a-5888-b8b2-02a7eb759046)

Chapter 22 (#u2813c9c3-906a-56a7-b5cf-5eca2b2fa0a2)

Chapter 23 (#u5c13276a-24a2-5e00-b61c-9ce3245173ed)

Chapter 24 (#uec3fb85c-4335-5d97-9486-297e363132ca)

Chapter 25 (#u358bebc9-2680-559f-9bc0-838b5886710e)

Chapter 26 (#u2e62a8c4-7dec-58f5-8be0-8488a73f0090)

Chapter 27 (#uecf27a11-327b-5124-a7f7-28a6f77e5f37)

Chapter 28 (#u0be7a285-5bdf-5aab-9ac9-3ce7c47afeea)

Chapter 29 (#u5f601a08-ca78-5ae9-8a47-f7e2b007d6ef)

Chapter 30 (#ucf3c2a49-d4e9-5b95-b4af-0bb75eb67b10)

Chapter 31 (#u40f053a1-dceb-5cb8-9e60-d922ba978b94)

Chapter 32 (#ud3113976-3201-5d68-8a06-b6cbb7355622)

Chapter 33 (#u7f41788f-4374-57e8-98bf-be1ff4830d6f)

Chapter 34 (#u06068afa-2b93-5a20-945c-c1ecb15cd0c3)

Chapter 35 (#u1183eb93-3493-5721-be57-b06e6716017d)

Chapter 36 (#u73ada8dd-7cfd-539c-8607-4d1e01ac9db3)

Chapter 37 (#ucb50fdf8-bbaa-58ce-ad65-fbf1c3eb2f00)

Chapter 38 (#u2008fecd-6dfa-52db-b5b4-5f410e0bdd7a)

Chapter 39 (#u903b248f-2455-5a93-8323-d765081fd697)

Chapter 40 (#u41012966-2680-50e4-a843-100ff37b6f0e)

Chapter 41 (#u37d355e7-9e3b-5645-8d39-6dedd7d7bf64)

Chapter 42 (#u018313dd-d95b-55f9-9519-740a0750f6aa)

Chapter 43 (#uc833ae4d-2bc4-5e46-9612-8b6b15574fce)

Chapter 44 (#u70bfa966-40c6-57e2-92d7-30cbd66ea848)

Chapter 45 (#u1863cab3-bc3b-559c-a832-dc71382979a8)

Chapter 46 (#u5fb3e1f7-6eea-5fcd-b978-d98885c3a977)

Chapter 47 (#u5fce571a-6858-55cd-8b08-f54e2f31183a)

Chapter 48 (#u6decbf59-076c-52a7-b947-9a40ddd62053)

Chapter 49 (#u55f0564b-392b-5141-aee4-5a5a70c044cd)

Chapter 50 (#ub76ff956-7a94-59d4-8648-9dd75c0bcb82)

Chapter 51 (#ufdedade7-c426-5d8c-9c21-ac9e15c5929e)

Chapter 52 (#u54a047a1-964e-5b9b-b045-986d40ba55e7)

Chapter 53 (#uf9cb8d0b-2464-557b-b2c3-486c77322196)

Chapter 54 (#u0d5c7095-6483-5eaa-aaf3-9dc4a27b51b1)

Chapter 55 (#ua4dbe777-6d45-55d4-be6e-e07c3108f200)

Chapter 56 (#ufdbcf0c4-2c81-5c67-af29-94436e36b094)

Epilogue (#u7ed92e0f-73d8-58b9-b898-200e18449d7b)

Lucy Baker’s Dairy-Free Cherry Muffin Recipe (#u8b3cd10d-c759-5c0d-9990-bbfbcef7d3c8)

Acknowledgements (#u5efebecb-8adc-5e6e-bbaf-f94ab17bde34)

About the Author (#ua71bb773-a7bb-5bf2-a774-dca31a09d033)

About the Publisher (#u7a657609-d454-5a89-a7ca-0f1029fea25e)