Contents

About the Book

About the Author

Also by Isla Dewar

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter One: Three Women Cycling to Work

Chapter Two: Elspeth Moon

Chapter Three: Making Friends with the Loneliness

Chapter Four: Custard Days

Chapter Five: How Many Fingers Do You Need, Anyway?

Chapter Six: Elspeth and Izzy

Chapter Seven: Careful, Careful

Chapter Eight: Christmas and a Brief Lesson in Line Shooting

Chapter Nine: The Flavour of the Day

Chapter Ten: A Guardian Angel

Chapter Eleven: Not Yet

Chapter Twelve: Drowning the Whistle

Chapter Thirteen: Guilt and Kisses

Chapter Fourteen: I Love a Bit of Brahms

Chapter Fifteen: The Toast

Chapter Sixteen: Pork Chops to the Rescue

Chapter Seventeen: Winning’s Important

Chapter Eighteen: The Dance

Chapter Nineteen: The Orange

Chapter Twenty: You Owe Me

Chapter Twenty-one: Earthbound and Loveless

Chapter Twenty-two: The Bathing Belle

Chapter Twenty-three: Wanda the Wonder

Chapter Twenty-four: An Evening’s Extravaganza

Chapter Twenty-five: Three Women in Love and One Woman Who Isn’t

Chapter Twenty-six: Cream Cakes and Carpets

Chapter Twenty-seven: Dirty Secrets

Chapter Twenty-eight: There’s no Such Thing as Fair

Chapter Twenty-nine: Tears Later

Chapter Thirty: Twenty to two

Chapter Thirty-one: A Grand Night Out

Chapter Thirty-two: Everything I Need

Chapter Thirty-three: Mrs Middleton

Chapter Thirty-four: Useless, Useless

Chapter Thirty-five: Just Round the Corner

Chapter Thirty-six: What Have I Done?

Chapter Thirty-seven: Mary Queen of Scots’ Teaspoon

Chapter Thirty-eight: Someone To Watch Over You

Chapter Thirty-nine: You Goose, Izzy

Chapter Forty: Eating for Two

Chapter Forty-one: The Truth About Love from Mrs Brent

Chapter Forty-two: Not for You, It’s Not

Chapter Forty-three: Bike Tyres and a Lucky Stone

Chapter Forty-four: Mrs Alton

Chapter Forty-five: To Think, We Used to Be Beautiful

Chapter Forty-six: Should’ve, Should’ve, Should’ve

Chapter Forty-seven: Time to Let Go

Chapter Forty-eight: A Stranger in a Green Suit

Chapter Forty-nine: All the Way from America

Chapter Fifty: Do You Miss It?

Chapter Fifty-one: You Used Me

Chapter Fifty-two: I Don’t Want to Go, I Just Want to Be There

Chapter Fifty-three: Nobody There

Chapter Fifty-four: Grand

Chapter Fifty-five: Come in

Epilogue: A Very Good War

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