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Separate Beds

Separate Beds

Summary

Fall in love with the poignant and compelling novel about rediscovering true love from Elizabeth Buchan, bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton

Annie and Tom seem to have everything - a lovely home, rewarding jobs and three healthy grown-up children.

But beneath the surface lies a secret guilt which ensures that whilst they live under the same roof, they sleep in separate beds. Then Tom comes home one evening and drops a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything they have left.

If Tom and Annie are to weather this storm together they must first face the past that lies between them. Yet will doing so only push them further apart?


Separate Beds
is the heartwarming and captivating novel about the little acts of kindness that can reunite a family and rekindle a marriage.


Praise for Elizabeth Buchan:


'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated'
Independent

'Beautifully observed, with the insight and humour that one has come to expect from the author'
Times

'Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour'
Mail on Sunday

'Buchan is a cut above the rest'
Sunday Mirror

About the author

Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan's previous novels include the prizewinning Consider the Lily, the New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, and her most recent book The New Mrs Clifton, which was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2017. Elizabeth's short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in a range of magazines. Elizabeth reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail and is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival. She has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliott literary prizes, has been a judge for the Costa Novel Award, and she sits on the authors' committee for the Reading Agency. She lives in London.
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