Good Husband Material. Trisha Ashley

      

      GOOD HUSBAND MATERIAL

      Trisha Ashley

      Copyright

      Published by AVON

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      First published in Great Britain by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd in 2000

      This edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2013

      Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2000

      Cover design © debbieclementdesign.com 2019

      Cover illustration © Dominique Corbasson 2019

      Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9781847562814

      Ebook Edition © March 2013 ISBN: 9780007494088

      Version: 2019-11-28

Dedication

       For Mary Turner Long, with love.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Prologue

       Chapter 1: A Dream of a Man

       Chapter 2: Home, James

       Chapter 3: Painted Out

       Chapter 4: Wild in the Country

       Chapter 5: The Bourgeois Bitch

       Chapter 6: The Posy Profligate

       Chapter 7: Drained

       Chapter 8: Busted Flush

       Chapter 9: Nutthill Nutria

       Chapter 10: Just Award

       Chapter 11: Nasty in the Woodshed

       Chapter 12: Mayday!

       Chapter 13: And the Beet Goes on

       Chapter 14: In the Drink

       Chapter 15: Brief Encounter

       Chapter 16: Cat’s Paw

       Chapter 17: A Fête Worse than Death

       Chapter 18: Fencing

       Chapter 19: One Big Ham

       Chapter 20: No Change

       Chapter 21: Through a Glass, Darkly

       Chapter 22: Bugged

       Chapter 23: Love Goes West

       Chapter 24: Reciprocations

       Chapter 25: Blood and Roses

       Chapter 26: Pregnant Pause

       Chapter 27: Similar Conditions

       Chapter 28: Bonfire of the Vanities

       Chapter 29: The Great Castrator

       Chapter 30: Pupped

       Chapter 31: The Least Little Thing

       Chapter 32: Tie-dyed

       Chapter 33: Christmas Spirit

       Chapter 34: Twinkle,Twinkle

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