KERRY BARRETT was a bookworm from a very early age and did a degree in English Literature, then trained as a journalist, writing about everything from pub grub to EastEnders. Her first novel, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, took six years to finish and was mostly written in longhand on her commute to work, giving her a very good reason to buy beautiful notebooks. Kerry lives in London with her husband and two sons, and Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes is still her favourite novel.
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KERRY BARRETT
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E-book Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9781474044998
Version: 2020-03-20
Table of Contents
About the Author
Readers Love Kerry Barrett
Also by Kerry Barrett
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6: Cora
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9: Cora
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12: Cora
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16: Cora
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23: Cora
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29: Cora
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39: Cora
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47: Cora
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Epilogue
Extract