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AND THEN IT HAPPENED BY LINDA GREEN (Headline Review, £6.99)
Mel and Adam have been together since their teenage years and simply can’t imagine a world without each other. They have a lovely young daughter, great jobs and a dream home. But despite Adam’s efforts to reassure her that their good life will last, Mel can’t shake the niggling feeling that it’s all too good to be true and that one day fate will pay them a visit and call time on their happiness. And then it happens – an accident leaves Adam in a coma and Mel having to cope without her soulmate. Told from both Mel and Adam’s point of view – even while he’s lying unconscious in a hospital bed – this potentially mawkishly sad story is lifted by down-to-earth humour as Adam becomes the unwilling listening ear for family and
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THE TIME OF MY LIFE
BY CECELIA AHERN (HarperCollins, £16.99)
Lucy Silchester has been dodging an important appointment – with her life. Sweeping the abundant reminder letters firmly under the carpet, she’s busied herself with her loathsome job, helping out her friends, resolving her family’s dramas, feeding her transgender cat and swooning over ideal man Gene Kelly. But this is one appointment that Lucy cannot miss. Her life, ever persistent, is about to catch up with her in ways she simply could not have anticipated in this wonderfully enchanting, tender and beautifully penned tale.
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by Willy Russell, The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
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