FIONA GIBSON
Take Mum Out
Avon
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2014
Copyright © Fiona Gibson 2014
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Source ISBN: 9781847563651
Ebook Edition © March 2014 ISBN: 9780007469383
Version: 2015-04-09
For Gavin, for setting me up on a very significant blind date
(‘I don’t think he’ll fancy you though’)
Table of Contents
Chapter Two: Four months later