Excerpt from Uncoupled by Lynne Barrett-Lee

Happily married, with two lovely sons, Alex Taylor considers herself lucky. And when she hears her childhood friend Cathy has died, she finds herself counting her blessings. She'€™s also surprised that she'€™s been left a bequest. They lost touch with one another twenty years back. Why would Cathy remember her now? She can'€™t imagine but she's about to find out, because she'€™s also been left something else; something that's about to change everything. It'€™s a letter confessing to the three year affair Cathy had with Alex's husband. "˜But it'€™s history,"€™ Sam entreats. "It'€™s long over. It meant nothing."€™ Surely Alex can forgive and forget? Should she? She'€™s not at all sure. But it looks like she won'€™t be allowed to. Because history has not only re-written the past, it'€™s also re-writing their future... .

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