Raking The Ashes
Author: Anne Fine
Lovers, colleagues, family – Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife.Tilly’s own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she’s always one step….Read More
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