A Sea Change (Quick Reads 2013) Read online

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  Quantum of Tweed: The Man with the Nissan Micra

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  RaW Voices: True Stories of Hardship and Hope

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  Reading My Arse!

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  A Sea Change

  Veronica Henry

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  Today Everything Changes

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  Alison Weir

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  Terry Jones

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  We Won the Lottery

  Danny Buckland

  Wrong Time, Wrong Place

  Simon Kernick

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  About the Author

  Veronica Henry worked as a scriptwriter for The Archers, Heartbeat and Holby City, among many others, before turning to fiction.

  She lives with her family on the coast in north Devon.

  Visit her website at www.veronicahenry.co.uk or follow her on Twitter@veronica_henry

  By Veronica Henry

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  Copyright

  An Orion Books ebook

  First published in Great Britain in 2013

  by Orion Books

  an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd

  This ebook first published in 2013 by Orion Books

  Copyright © Veronica Henry 2013

  The moral right of Veronica Henry 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.

  All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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

  ISBN: 978 1 4091 0888 7

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