The Chance of a Lifetime
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This book has been given a re-birth since it was first published as Jacaranda Wife in 2015. Part of my journey that has been the most valuable to me is the support, laughs and moving of crockery to demonstrate plot points at the DWLC with Claire Dyer, Adrienne Dines, Kerry Fisher and Alison Sherlock – without you all, I think I would have thrown in the keyboard a long while ago! And I am extremely grateful to my fabulous new editor, Hannah Smith, for her enthusiasm and professionalism and am very lucky to be working with her and the whole editorial team at Aria Fiction/Head of Zeus. To know my book has gone through the capable hands of Helena Newton and Sue Lamprell is a joy for a – sometimes befuddled – writer. Thanks also to Lucy Hartopp and Sarah Taylor-Smith for last-minute medical checks! Any errors are entirely mine.
And, of course, to all my family. My mum, my sisters – to listening (maybe snoring through) monologues from me about agents, publishers – POV, voice… To my fabulous three boys, and, most especially, my husband who has provided constant support. And finally, this book is for my dad, David Oswald Smith, who died in 1991, leaving behind a very bewildered twenty-something and a gap that can never be filled. He’d tell me, ‘You know, Kendra, easy reading is damn hard writing,’ borrowing the quote from the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
You know what, Dad? You were right.
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About Kendra Smith
KENDRA SMITH has been a journalist, wife, mother, aerobics teacher, qualified diver and very bad cake baker. She started her career in Sydney selling advertising space but quickly made the leap to editorial – and went on to work on several women’s magazines in both Sydney and London. With dual Australian-British nationality, she currently lives in Surrey with her husband and three children.
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Originally self-published as Jacaranda Wife in 2015
This edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Kendra Smith, 2015
The moral right of Kendra Smith 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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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (E) 9781789541861
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