A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin. Helen Forrester

      A Cuppa Tea and An Aspirin

      Helen Forrester

      

       Copyright

      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, is entirely coincidental.

      

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2003

      Copyright © Helen Forrester 2003

      

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      Source ISBN: 9780007156948

      Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780007387380 Version: 2014-12-10

       For Vivien Green, with much gratitude

      When the going gets tough,

       the tough make tea

      Anon

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

AUTHOR’S NOTE

PROLOGUE

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

       TEN

       ELEVEN

       TWELVE

       THIRTEEN

       FOURTEEN

       FIFTEEN

       SIXTEEN

       SEVENTEEN

       EIGHTEEN

       NINETEEN

       TWENTY

       TWENTY-ONE

       TWENTY-TWO

       TWENTY-THREE

       TWENTY-FOUR

       TWENTY-FIVE

       TWENTY-SIX

       TWENTY-SEVEN

       TWENTY-EIGHT

       TWENTY-NINE

       THIRTY

       THIRTY-ONE

       THIRTY-TWO

       THIRTY-THREE

       THIRTY-FOUR

       THIRTY-FIVE

       THIRTY-SIX