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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2017

oorhees 2017

Cover design by Studio Takoma/Zoe Norvell © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Cover photograph © Deborah Kolb/ImageBrief

Cover image © Alamy (detail)

Jennifer M V

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

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

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.

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Source ISBN: 9780008116330

Ebook Edition © February 2017 ISBN: 9780008116347

Dedication

Dedicated to Elma Mae Bruce.

I am a changed person because your story and my story intersected, no matter how brief that chapter may

have been. Your support as a reader meant the world to me as an author, but the impact you had on me as a

person … well, that is unforgettable, and I will be forever grateful that I was able to share both your

triumphs and disappointments as you fought the good fight. It is true what they say … not all heroes wear

capes.

We are all going to leave a legacy behind us when we go. Be it big or small, I hope that all of us take a

moment, a minute, a split second to invest in making sure the one that we are building is one that we can

be proud of, one that makes others smile and think fondly of us, because it’s so easy to forget the good

when the bad seems to always out front and center. Leave the lives you touch better off for having had you

in them.

Also FUCK YOU, cancer … you are literally the worst and we’re all pretty sick of your shit.

Epigraph

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

—Winston Churchill