Baby Love

Baby Love
Louisa Young

A fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-belly dancer Evangeline’s fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her into the seedy underworld of her past – the first book in Louisa Young’s celebrated Anglo-Egyptian trilogy of Evangeline Gower novels.Evangeline is a single parent whose child is the daughter of her sister, who was killed in a motorbike accident. Evangeline, who was driving the bike, sustained injuries which put an end to her belly dancing career. She now leads an exemplary life, writing and looking after Lily. But when she gets into trouble with the police, she is drawn into the shadowy world of drug dealers, pornographers and bent coppers that seems to have bizarre connections with her sister’s past.With a plot that makes you rush to the end, this is a thriller without violence, a romance without sentiment and a brilliantly exciting novel.

BABY LOVE

The Angeline Gower Trilogy

Louisa Young

Copyright (#ub48330bd-c5fd-5b1d-97fe-5ea89185924b)

The Borough Press

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Published by The Borough Press 2015

First published by Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1997

Copyright © Louisa Young 1997

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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 resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007577989

Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007397006

Version: 2015-09-07

Praise for The Angeline Gower Trilogy: (#ub48330bd-c5fd-5b1d-97fe-5ea89185924b)

‘Funny, sexy and tender’ ESTHER FREUD

‘A stylishly literate thriller’ Marie Claire

‘You will keep coming back to this book when you should be doing something else’ LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES

‘Exciting, compelling and tense’ Time Out

‘Funny and scary. In writing honestly and unsentimentally, Young celebrates the unequivocal nature of parental love with verve and style’ Mail on Sunday

‘Wry, perky, entertaining’ Observer

‘Engaging, wise-cracking, likeable, brilliantly sustained … funny, humane and utterly readable’ Good Housekeeping

Dedication (#ub48330bd-c5fd-5b1d-97fe-5ea89185924b)

For Yaw Adomakoh, the good father

Contents

Cover (#u254cdcc7-451b-5533-afca-79c31d084e3c)

Title Page (#u3e1eef99-178f-5fb4-bae1-ba0e99e9cf24)

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter One: An Argument

Chapter Two: In the Pub with Ben

Chapter Three: Us Then

Chapter Four: Tea with Jim

Chapter Five: In the Park with Harry

Chapter Six: Harry in His Showroom

Chapter Seven: Eddie’s House

Chapter Eight: Dinner with Eddie

Chapter Nine: Lunch with Harry

Chapter Ten: Looking after Lily