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Название: Baby Love

Автор: Louisa Young

Издательство: HarperCollins

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      BABY LOVE

      The Angeline Gower Trilogy

      Louisa Young

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       Copyright

      The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Published by The Borough Press 2015

      First published by Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1997

      Copyright © Louisa Young 1997

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

      Cover images © Shutterstock.com

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      A catalogue record for 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.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780007577989

      Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007397006

      Version: 2015-09-07

       Praise for The Angeline Gower Trilogy:

      ‘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

      For Yaw Adomakoh, the good father

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Praise

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Chapter One: An Argument

      Chapter Two: In the Pub with Ben

       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

       Chapter Eleven: Learning

       Chapter Twelve: Flowers from Eddie

       Chapter Thirteen: Janie’s Tea-chest

       Chapter Fourteen: Unsettling

       Chapter Fifteen: Eddie Again

       Chapter Sixteen: Out

       Chapter Seventeen: Showtime

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Louisa Young

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

      I wrote these novels a long time ago. I spent my days correcting the grammar at the Sunday Times, and my nights writing. I could no longer travel the world doing features about born-again Christian bike gangs in New Jersey, or women salt-miners in Gujarat, or the Mr and Mrs Perfect Couple of America Pageant in Galveston, Texas, which was the sort of thing I had been doing up until then. I had to stay still. I had a baby. Babies focus the mind admirably: any speck of time free has to be made the most of.

      I had £300 saved up, so I put the baby and the manuscript in the back of a small car and drove to Italy, where we lived in some rooms attached to a tiny church in a village which was largely abandoned, other than for some horses and some aristocrats. A nice girl groom took the baby to the sea each day in my car while I stared at the pages thinking: ‘If I don’t demonstrate some belief in this whole notion of novels, and me as a novelist, then why should anyone else?’

      Re-reading these books now, I think, ‘Christ! Such energy!’ I was so young – so full of beans. I described the plot to my father, who wrote novels and was briefly, in his day, the new Virginia Woolf. After about five minutes he said, ‘Yes, that СКАЧАТЬ