The Sunday Lunch Club
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Particular thanks to Sonia Lopez-Freire, for her help with the Spanish character in this book.
Lastly, my daughter Niamh, who should be at ‘that difficult age’ but who gives me time and space to write. Thank you, sweetiepie.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
At home in Surrey, JULIET ASHTON writes all day in her small study while her two dogs stare at her. The rest of her house, which is full of music and books and comfy places to sit, she shares with her thirteen-year-old daughter and her husband, who’s a composer (hence the music). She believes wholeheartedly in the power of books to improve lives, increase understanding and while away happy hours.
Also by Juliet Ashton
The Valentine’s Card
These Days of Ours
The Woman at Number 24
THESE DAYS OF OURS
JULIET ASHTON
Kate and Becca aren’t just cousins, they’re best friends. Growing up together, they’ve shared all the milestones – childhood parties, eighteenth birthdays and now a double wedding day.
Kate and Charlie were meant to be. That’s what everybody said. So why have things turned out so differently?
Best friends are forever, and true love always finds a way . . . Doesn’t it?
‘Warm, witty and surprising’
Louise Candlish
‘A delicious story of love and loss that had me utterly entranced’
Kate Furnivall
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THE WOMAN AT NUMBER 24
JULIET ASHTON
Welcome to number 24, a Georgian villa in West London that is home to five separate families and five very different lives.
Up in the eaves, Sarah finds that recovering from a nasty divorce is even more heartbreaking when your ex-husband lives one floor beneath you with his new wife. Their happiness floats up through the floorboards, taunting her. A child psychologist, Sarah has picked up great sadness from the little girl, Una, who lives with her careworn mother three floors below, but is Sarah emotionally equipped to reach out?
Spring brings a new couple to number 24. Jane and Tom’s zest for life revives the flagging house, and Sarah can’t deny the instant attraction to handsome Tom. Having seen at first-hand what infidelity does to people, she’ll never act on it… but the air fizzes with potential.
The sunshine doesn’t reach every corner of number 24, however. Elderly Mavis, tucked away in the basement, has kept the world at bay for decades. She’s about to find out that she can’t hide forever…
Love, rivalry and secrets . . . all under one roof.
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