Simone has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of 40, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success.
Of course, it’s not just her story.
When she was a teen, she and Tess dated.
It’s a little more complicated now.
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