The Girl I Used to Know

by Faith Hogan

  Particular thanks must go to early readers: Ailish Munnelly, Fiona Brady, Marcella Hogan, Ann-Marie Mc Loughlin, Mabel Snee, Orla Holmes, Teresa Canavan, Mary Devanney and Ann-Marie Durcan-Gilvarry. Thanks to Silke Kauther-Ginty and Michelle McGovern for reading and generally putting up with me!

  Thank you, Bernadine Cafferkey, (super sister), for enthusiastically reading the drafts and being so very much more clever than your average fashionista.

  Thank you, Christine Cafferkey, who has kept us all going through kitchen mayhem, telly blackouts, and so much more as well, you truly are Magic Mammy!

  Thank you to Seán, Roisín, Tomás and Cristín – always be the ones who turn can’ts into cans and dreams into plans xx

  To James, my PR guru and most enthusiastic supporter, still counting my blessings – here’s to the next fifteen x

  Finally, thanks to you the reader for choosing my book, I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it!

  About Faith Hogan

  FAITH HOGAN lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, four children and two very fussy cats. She has an Hons Degree in English Literature and Psychology, has worked as a fashion model and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector.

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  Thank you, Lovely Reader…

  For turning each page in this story until you got here – I hope you enjoyed it! I’ve loved each of the women in this book and I was also rather fond of one of the men!

  If I’m honest, when I write a story, I don’t think about it going off into the world – if I did, it’d probably never get written! Of course, when it does, it is thrilling and daunting all at once. But now, my place in this story has ended and I’m letting it off into a sea of other books. It is in your hands…

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  Till next time,

  Faith xx

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  First published in the UK in 2017 by Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd

  Copyright © Faith Hogan, 2017

  The moral right of Faith Hogan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

  This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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  ISBN (E) 9781786692863

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