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If Alison had known I was here, she wouldn’t have come back. Catherine was glad for once that she had developed the talent of fading into the background. Even so, her heart was racing. She felt light-headed and hot, as if she had a fever. “It’s just a girl you once knew, a girl you fell out with over a boy,” she told herself. “It doesn’t matter. Why should it matter now?” But Alison hadn’t come back alone. She’d come back with two girls and a teenage son… and her husband. Her husband. Catherine had never known what became of Alison and Marc. Once again, her eyes swept the room, but this time she was looking for something different. The sight that stopped her heart was the back of a man’s head, dark hair cut short into the nape of his neck. She was looking at her living, breathing past. And then, as if he sensed the touch of her gaze on his skin, slowly and uncertainly the man turned around and looked right at her and recognized her. Praise for The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman “A disarmingly sweet tale of motherhood and reluctant love.” —Publishers Weekly “Brilliant… moving and funny.” —New Woman magazine “Fun, poignant.” —OK magazine Also by Rowan Coleman The Accidental Mother Rowan Coleman Another Mother’s Life Pocket Books A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 [http://www.SimonandSchuster.com] www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2008 by Rowan Coleman Originally published in Great Britain as The Accidental Wife by Arrow Books in 2008 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Pocket Books trade paperback edition October 2008 POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-800-456-6798 or [email protected]. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coleman, Rowan. Another mother’s life / Rowan Coleman p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8302-8 ISBN-10: 1-4165-8302-5 eISBN-13: 978-1-416-58423-0 1. Motherhood—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. 3. England—Fiction. I. Title. PR6103.O4426A85 2008 823’.92—dc22 2008002513 For my daughter, Lily, who is my sunshine. Another Mother’s Life
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