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‘I enjoyed every page of this touching, authentic novel’
~ Liane Moriarty
Worlds Apart
Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel.
Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches a crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney, not only does she land the perfect job, but she meets the perfect man. Finally her life is falling into place. Except Sydney isn’t home, and never can be.
Back in Ireland, Laura is struggling. Her husband appears distant, her work is spinning out of control and her daughter’s strange new nanny is undermining her at every turn. She longs to to travel in Erin’s footsteps, to drop everything and run far away. But these are dangerous thoughts for a mother and wife.
As Erin and Laura desperately try to find their place in the world, a shocking family secret comes to light, and nothing will ever be the same again.
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