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Somewhere Only We Know: The bestselling laugh out loud millenial romantic comedy
Erin Lawless
A must read if you’ve read and loved Zoe Folbigg’s The Note, David Nicholls’ One Day and Netflix’s smash hit show Love SickA gorgeously romantic and hilariously funny rom com about love in all its forms, the power of friendship and f*cking up in your 20s…Boy meets girls…Alex Bradley can't help but feel that life is rather passing him by. And not just life – promotions, invitations, romance; the girl he loves only has eyes for his flatmate and his 9-5 job as the Immigration department skivvy is slowly numbing his soul. Until he meets Nadia.Girl meets boy…Nadia Osipova is running out of time. With no money, no lawyer and a totally fictitious boyfriend, she’s got one last summer and one last appeal before the British government deport her back home.Girl gets deported?It's going to be a bumpy ride, one she's dragging her new friend Alex along for. As Nadia races through a list of all her favourite London adventures, for what may be the last time, Alex can’t help but start to see the city, and his life, through Nadia’s eyes.From hazy summer days on the Common and heady nights in Soho’s basement bars, to twilight walks along the Southbank, will Alex realise what he’s got before it’s too late?Funny, addictive and always honest, this is a love letter to London, friendship and the unexpected from the author of the bestselling The Best Thing I Never Had.
Somewhere Only We Know
ERIN LAWLESS
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Praise for The Best Thing I Never Had (#u0d03c803-4163-54d5-8d2c-762cc1d5e992)
‘Funny and Addictive…If this is Erin Lawless' first book, I can't wait to read her next one!’
Fabulous Magazine (The Sun)
‘Friendships, trust, lies, deceit, love and so much more – a real page-turner for me!!’
Cosmochicklitan
‘A superb debut about complicated ties, betrayal and lies, and one of my favourite books of the year.’
ChickLit Club
‘The Best Thing I Never Had was mind-blowingly good and everyone should read it.’
ChickLitReviews
‘One of the most engaging books I’ve read this year. I loved it.’
Books with Bunny
'A lovely, warm read to snuggle up on the sofa with.'
Novelicious
Моей лучшей подруге
KSENIA
and also,
to LONDON
a home of my heart
People are like cities:
We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.
Hilary T. Smith
Contents
Cover (#u78c15fb0-5d54-59d4-9960-5335196523e0)
Title Page (#ua43136cc-1505-5722-814c-7e28509f5439)
Copyright (#u46c78c04-cad1-5cb5-a823-1b8b0bb05329)
Praise for The Best Thing I Never Had (#uf6d7952b-dedf-5432-b498-872c9d0817a8)
Dedication (#u521f65d2-da57-541b-8866-a4e8135482e5)
Chapter 1 (#u9e4f2ad6-a78d-5aa9-89be-535fe010dece)
Chapter 2 (#u2d39428f-708a-58e3-8222-8bb3feeae2f4)
Chapter 3 (#u424ee55d-0be6-58c4-b851-037cfe4d0590)
Chapter 4 (#ue92b357c-3e5d-5d9d-97a7-3a860a48b9e9)
Chapter 5 (#u0cb38d3a-3fee-5a02-b7fa-d5300e2f675d)
Chapter 6 (#ud45f3e9c-6a1b-5f9b-bffb-2909b133860f)
Chapter 7 (#ua08948d5-1f28-5b2c-b5c0-18b765807068)
Chapter 8 (#ufdcd38f5-2995-5acf-be86-cba80d59efe8)
Chapter 9 (#u0bdf481e-a83a-55f4-bd24-b46ec5d2583b)
Chapter 10 (#u77fe6707-9d20-5556-8d40-f3e9bad1bf2e)
Chapter 11 (#u8f7d77a9-bc14-559b-932d-0eea1e04e839)
Chapter 12 (#u8936a310-b50c-573c-a368-bf75f5e467bb)
Chapter 13 (#ue9e5ce6a-4709-5f3e-a4a5-69e902b02414)
Chapter 14 (#u961c456f-c8b1-5dac-9b13-e72bc3b0f280)
Chapter 15 (#u85514dcb-49df-5e56-98ed-61cea8fe8352)
Chapter 16 (#u0eed485e-57cc-5231-9056-29cecc1fd117)
Chapter 17 (#u94050ee9-57ee-5de3-bf73-73c89a8b2735)
Chapter 18 (#u1f503957-e5ea-5ff4-a28f-16662e5ec1f0)
Chapter 19 (#u541b1e96-96ab-55b1-97a5-56aa0b825047)
Chapter 20 (#u2d25a1e5-ebb0-5015-bab5-51d4f0926151)
Chapter 21 (#ub1dd8c5a-4040-518b-b436-419dcbd3a73b)
Chapter 22 (#ue68acb61-a4ae-57ea-9a35-0626378ab105)
Chapter 23 (#u37f63875-33f0-5ee4-aa81-09d2b71efee1)
Chapter 24 (#u7e21b28e-cfb7-575b-b495-fe5f2031a049)
EPILOGUE (#uf899a4dd-a6fb-5b34-bed3-d5942c1b9098)
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Erin Lawless (#u90177dbb-b32e-5a01-929b-4914565f32f1)
About HarperImpulse (#u713fb87f-aba8-514d-8272-fa0413996609)
About the Publisher (#u090fd1a1-cb6e-58c5-b1b1-3b66ae7c7409)
Chapter 1 (#u0d03c803-4163-54d5-8d2c-762cc1d5e992)
Alex
The weight Donnelly was putting on was definitely starting to show; his paunch was forced to rest on top of the boardroom table, his straining lower shirt buttons pointing to the ceiling. He looked as though at any minute he was going to start stroking his stomach like a Bond villain with a cat. The new graduate trainee to Alex’s left was enthusiastically taking notes; Alex had stopped bringing a notepad and pen to this sort of meeting after his first six months. He tilted his head to see what he’d missed whilst distracted by Donnelly’s chub. Attention to detail, Newbie had jotted down. Asking the right questions. Adding value to your day was underlined neatly. The thing that would add most value to his day, Alex thought, was not having this pointless team meeting scheduled for a Friday afternoon.
After a few more motivational mantras, Donnelly released them back to their desks for the final twenty minutes of the working week. Alex shook his mouse to wake up his PC and had to hurriedly smother his office-inappropriate smile at seeing he’d received an email from Lila.
