Polly

Polly
Freya North

NEW on ebook for the first time with NEW author afterword.He’s out of sight, she’s out of her mind.Polly Fenton is about to embark on a year-long teachers’ exchange to America. Swapping cottage pie for corn dogs is one thing, but trading lives with her American counterpart, Jen, is quite another.The minute Polly’s feet touch down Stateside, she’s swept off them altogether. When she meets Chip Jonson, the school athletic trainer, all thoughts of home suddenly disappear.Spanning three terms and two countries, this is a sparky and sassy story of New England and Old England, fidelity and flirtation, receiving one’s comeuppance – and making amends.

FREYA NORTH

Polly

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblace to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely conincidental.

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

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First published in Great Britain by

William Heinemann 1998

Copyright © Freya North 1998

Afterword © Freya North 2012

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

Extracts here (#ulink_07ce051e-c201-5870-8380-e36205344ed0), here (#litres_trial_promo) and here (#litres_trial_promo) from ‘Moonlight in Vermont’ by Karl Suessdorf and John Blackburn; Extracts here (#litres_trial_promo) from ‘Tam O’Shanter’ by Robert Burns;

‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerald Manley Hopkins; ‘Somet, Bright Start’ by John Keats; ‘Proverbial Philosophy’, 1st series. ‘Of Discretion’ by Martin Farquhar Tupper;

‘Lead Kindly Night’ by Henry Newman

The author and publisher have made all reasonable efforts to contact copyright holders for permission, and any omissions or errors in the form of credit given will be corrected in future editions

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

Source ISBN: 9780007462193

Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN:9780007462209

Version: 2017-11-28

FIRST EDITION

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Table of Contents

Title Page (#u6527d602-3792-512c-aa66-6df4f59e9971)

Copyright (#u2681a7e1-7ad1-5fcb-bc4e-8f0f7ee4008b)

Dedication (#u1e69788b-163d-5bf7-978c-65e7be06624f)

Michaelmas (#u37045546-5d61-5a67-adca-caeb7a16228d)

Chapter One (#ue0f63a0c-1162-546b-8f78-b6e30e4517a8)

Chapter Two (#u094b8e1f-b99c-5816-a42b-c3bebb971496)

Chapter Three (#u45b2cb46-eac9-57ca-8b9e-769293b0fd18)

Chapter Four (#u208ed268-2231-50a0-b7d1-4b22a6a55886)

Chapter Five (#ud5bcd226-0667-59fd-9fac-8f4db5b1de02)

Chapter Six (#ub562e027-b18f-5409-a157-32456a5e196c)

Chapter Seven (#u6f4e9185-2d6d-53f8-af04-c4cd82af2a0d)

Chapter Eight (#ud3890360-11a3-57f1-89b5-68bdf0227ebf)

Chapter Nine (#u60869e81-1a6c-5971-88db-2dd7c1fec421)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Lent (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)