The Game
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3. Clover’s Child
When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Soloman Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in sixties London – and what’s more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. Someone who wants to give her everything she has dreamed of. Someone who can promise her blue skies, laughter, sun and always, always love.
And for a while, life is truly like a song. They stroll hand-in-hand by the Serpentine, dance cheek-to-cheek in Soho’s smoky bars, and begin to plan their idyllic future, growing old together in Sol’s ancestral home on the island of St Lucia.
But this is 1961. East End girls don’t date West Indian boys, let alone fall in love with them and leave the country. They stay at home and live the life their parents planned for them. Even if it leaves them lonelier than they ever thought possible. Even if it rips their heart in two...
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4. A Little Love
Everybody needs a little love in their lives…
Pru Plum is the celebrated owner of famous Mayfair bakery, Plum’s Patisserie. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut. Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixty-six last year.
But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears. She has done shameful things to get to where she is today. And she will do anything to protect the secrets of her past - especially when, for the first time in her life, she has finally fallen in love…
From bestselling author Amanda Prowse, this is a story about love, loss and lies... and finding happiness before it’s too late.
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Contents
Cover
Welcome Page
The Night Before
Blissful Ignorance
Have You Lost Her?
Day One
Eight Weeks
A Girl Is Found
The Unbearable Truth
A New Life
Turn Off the Lamp
Poppy Day — Preview
What Have I Done? — Preview
Clover’s Child — Preview
A Little Love — Preview
About this Book
Reviews
About the Author
About No Greater Love
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright