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Broken Country

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'I devoured it' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace 'Evocative, sensitive and compelling... Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark' DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as... Read More
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Broken Country

An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?

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'I devoured it' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace

'Evocative, sensitive and compelling... Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark' DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing

Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right.

Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.

It was Frank who picked up the pieces, and together they built a home very different from the one she'd imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.

But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth's certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it's wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?

A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.

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ISBN: 9781399820424

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

After several years of living and working in London as a journalist and writing Pictures of Him and Days You Were Mine, Clare, her husband and three children moved to an old farmhouse in Dorset. The house, the ancient fields surrounding it and the farmers who have a deep connection to the land inspired the setting for Broken Country.

Broken Country will be published in thirty-one countries.

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