The Holiday Home. Fern Britton

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      FERN BRITTON

       The Holiday Home

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       Copyright

      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.

       Harper

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013

      Copyright © Fern Britton 2013

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2014

       Illustration © Robyn Neild Author photograph © Neil Cooper

      The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Source ISBN: 9780007468539

       Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007468553 Version: 2017-12-21

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      For Jack. May all your dreams come true. I love you.

       Mum xx

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading: A Seaside Affair

       Keep Reading: A Good Catch

       Read on for a Q&A with Fern

       My Cornwall: Fern Britton

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       Atlantic House 1988

      THE HUSK OF A DEAD FLY LAY DRY AND BRITTLE on the sun-bleached oak window sill.

       The house was silent and empty in the drowsiness of the bright spring morning. If its almost three-hundred-year-old walls harboured any memories of previous occupants, the weddings and wakes, conceptions and christenings that had taken place here, there was no sign. Where rich brocade curtains had once hung from the tall windows, there clung trailing cobwebs. The days when handsome young men in tight breeches and high-collared frock coats had wooed maidens in


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