Home Truths

Home Truths
Susan Lewis

Pre-order the new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Susan Lewis.Praise for Susan Lewis’ bestselling novels:‘Susan Lewis has a gift for telling warm family stories that also take you by surprise. One Minute Later will make you savour every second’ Jane Corry

Copyright (#u9d520ee3-d24a-57b6-97ef-407f5777c447)

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copyright © Susan Lewis 2019

Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

Cover photograph © Alison Archinuk / Trevillion Images

Susan Lewis asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

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: 9780008286781

Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780008286804

Version: 2019-07-09

Dedication (#u9d520ee3-d24a-57b6-97ef-407f5777c447)

To Rachel Parfitt

and to everyone who gives

so selflessly of their time and expertise

to help those in need

Contents

Cover (#u26a50bcd-e466-52a6-8e78-d0dadefcdc5b)

Title Page (#ua4e8560e-3529-54a7-b797-ac423490406b)

Copyright

Dedication

‘Don’t go! Please … (#u003a4a34-a96a-5a9b-b5df-0d61846c7d45)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One