Carry You. Beth Thomas

      BETH THOMAS

       Carry You

       Copyright

      Avon

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

      Copyright © Beth Thomas 2014

      Beth Thomas 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: 9780007544813

      Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007544820

      Version: 2014–12–15

       Dedication

       For my Beano. Are you still doing all your walking?

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Epilogue

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       ONE

       Daisy Mack

      is reclining on the sofa eating Jaffa Cakes watching Hugh Grant punch Colin Firth. Could life get any better?

      Jenny Martin Ever thought about going out occasionally? Life can get a LOT better.

      Daisy Mack Thanks Jen. Great tip.

      Nat ‘Wiggy’ Nicholson Aw Daze that sounds miserable. Want me to come over?

      Daisy Mack Thanks Nat, but it’s OK. Gonna get an early night.

      Georgia Ling Hope your ok hun xx

      Ah, the fight scene in Bridget Jones’s Diary. This calls for another cake, to maximise the enjoyment. I pull the edges of my dressing gown round me a bit more tightly and snuggle down further into my duvet. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen this, it always cheers me up. Well, it makes me smile, anyway, which in my life is as close as I’m going to get to actual cheer. It’s not the sight of two inept men fighting like nine-year-old girls who don’t know how to fight that makes me smile. It’s the fact that there are two men left in the world to fight over one woman. I know, I know, it’s not real, it’s just fiction. But