Pip

Pip
Freya North

NEW on ebook for the first time with NEW author afterword.Do opposites really attract?It may seem odd to many, but stripy tights, pigtails and a gift to make kids laugh – whether at parties or on children's wards – make Pip McCabe happy. For her, clowning is a serious business. It’s just a shame her family and friends don’t buy it.High-flyer Zac Holmes – with his fabulous flat, sophisticated charm and grown-up life – couldn’t be more different from laid-back Pip.However, against a lively backdrop of parks, parties, hospitals and hotels, the misfits realize they have more in common than they originally thought.Will either of them own up?

FREYA NORTH

Pip

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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First published in Great Britain

by William Heinemann 2003

Copyright © Freya North 2003

Afterword © Freya North 2012

The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

‘The Tears of a Clown’. Words and Music by Stevie Wonder, William Robinson and Henry Cosby © 1967, Jobete Music Co, Inc./Black Bull Music, Inc., USA. Reproduced by permission of Black Bull Music Inc., Jobete Music Co., London WC2H 0QY. All rights Reserved

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

Source ISBN: 9780007462254

Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007462261

Version: 2017-11-28

FIRST EDITION

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For Mum and Dad

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Now I know! Thank you.

‘Clowns work as well as aspirin,but twice as fast’

Groucho Marx

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u00272f46-7c14-55b9-9356-f260d00ff1af)

Copyright (#u76e6e081-dd80-5f4f-9c00-2b95c98bef7a)

Dedication (#u0541d1e2-26fd-57e2-bfa5-555e3a38ba04)

Epigraph (#uc36073d1-0f45-5e74-9e1c-5e410acdbf63)

Chapter One (#u05a4f9c4-c52a-5a0d-bb4e-b8489a719855)

Chapter Two (#ude1a7345-e04d-5ee4-bb9f-33dde79e5025)

Chapter Three (#uf62767da-4f83-575f-9880-6f11c2ab83e3)

Chapter Four (#u09404144-69c2-5ad3-a891-f2b1b19c5c47)

Chapter Five (#u4c80f920-d710-517d-9f94-8bdc3851c220)

Chapter Six (#u6e88594a-b5f7-5307-9a2b-1cc31e3abe34)

Chapter Seven (#ud401f45a-418f-5253-b983-ef72088532f7)

Chapter Eight (#u5ea55d84-1276-592a-bdf5-87fc5455a77b)

Chapter Nine (#u3561e82f-1edc-577b-bc7b-283ad135b2ec)

Chapter Ten (#ub09f1cb7-fcae-55b1-9a58-f707a8e046f0)

Chapter Eleven (#ue59f5932-8e60-5a3a-9e40-c2c202d2c851)

Chapter Twelve (#ufad28348-b1ba-5c21-aa7b-a9043eb689a4)

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Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)