What If?. Shari Low

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      A Note From Shari

      Before you turn the page….

      Thank you so much for reading this 20^th Anniversary re-release of my first ever novel.

      When I wrote it back in 1999, Britney Spears had just found fame with ‘Baby One More Time’ and nothing much was impressing Shania Twain.

      Hugh Grant was trying to seduce Julia Roberts in Notting Hill and JK Rowling had just released Harry Potter’s third magical mystery.

      There were only a few TV channels, DVDs were considered cutting edge technology and we’d never heard of political correctness.

      Texting was relatively new and had yet to gain mass popularity and our mobile phones were mostly just used to – shock – talk to people. Oh, and international calls were so expensive it was cheaper to go to Benidorm for a week than to call someone there for a lengthy chat.

      The internet was a novelty that made a screeching noise when you dialled it up, and you could make three cups of tea in the time it took to download a page. More importantly, given the story in this book, there was no google, no facebook, no twitter, and if you wanted to find someone you just had to hope that directory enquiries had their phone number, otherwise there was no way to track them down them other than going to their house and throwing stones at their window.

      Or – like Carly Cooper – saying goodbye to your whole life and going on an international manhunt.

      I really hope you enjoy this step back in time.

      And I hope you fall in love with Carly, her pals and the story that started it all…

      Much love,

      Shari xxx