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ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN

Lucy Diamond, Quercus, $32.99

On that June day 19 years ago, Lara woke to the certain knowledge that her destiny had finally arrived. There would be surprises and twists and turns along the way, no doubt, but no more question marks. She had found Ben. Ben had found her. End of.

She was wrong. But not in the way she thought… Fast forward. She and her daughter, Eliza, leave Whitby, wet and pummelled by North Sea winds, to satisfy Eliza’s wish to locate her biological father, who’s believed to be living in New York.

Diamond deals skilfully with obstacles – namely expendable partners – and the fact that there’s no such thing as a one-off explanation for what happened or did not happen in the past. Happily-ever-after

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