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What does it take for a woman to assume a completely new identity Samantha knows. She has reinvented herself as Mrs Dale Cassinari; mother of Joe and Tony; honorary Italian daughter-in-law of Maria; good neighbour to Maeve; Stayfleurs supermarket supervisor. Only she knows that all this frantic activity is a cover for a past that she's determined to forget. A past that threatens to come back to haunt her in the shape of a letter addressed to Samantha Powel.

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'Fabulous. With her vivid imagination and deep perception, Stevie Morgan breaks your heart and makes you weep with laughter.' - Katie Fforde

Fabulous. With her vivid imagination and deep perception, Stevie Morgan breaks your heart and makes you weep with laughter. - Katie Fforde On FLY AWAY PETER: '[she] has a wonderful way with words and tackles real issues with humour and finesse.' - Good Book Guide Quite unlike anything else, this book is heartbreaking, funny, unusual, and ultimately uplifting. Tears of sorrow mingle with tears of laughter and I really couldn't put it down. Stevie Morgan is a real original new talent. - Katie Fforde Truly, Madly, Deeply in book form - Evening Herald On DELPHINIUM BLUES: Stevie Morgan will definitely do for divorcees what Bridget Jones has done for singles' - Home & Life It s witty, stylish, brilliantly written and completely irresistible. [...] A first novel by an accomplished newspaper columnist/television presenter and not, one hopes, her last. - Good Book Guide

Anyone delving into Stevie Morgan's quirky, well-written novel will undoubtably find much to enjoy in this engrossing, contemporary tale of a woman's journey of radical self-discovery. Sam runs away from her comfortable family home as a teenager, traumatized by her mother's apparently terminal illness and a series of events that have led her to the brink of despair. She quickly reinvents herself as Angie and soon becomes Mrs Cassinari, devoted wife and mother, exemplary supervisor at the local supermarket; it's a new identity that allows her to sublimate the unpleasant reality of her past. But not for long. One day a letter arrives that threatens the very essence of the new world she's carefully created and suddenly her safety net is whisked away, with unexpected and revelatory consequences. Morgan has an unerring eye for the sort of detail that makes this an unusual and refreshingly original read, full of humour and pathos. She paints a highly credible portrait of a likeable girl who discovers that it's only when she finally stops running and courageously faces her inner demons that the pain and doubt of the past can truly be erased. In such a scenario it's essential to create a heroine for whom one feels both kinship and sympathy and this is skilfully managed throughout. By the book's uplifting conclusion you're cheering all the way with Sam and family, fully absorbed by an inspirational tale of second chances that both warms the heart and engages the brain. (Kirkus UK)

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Stevie Morgan - the creator of the 'Beloved and Bonk' and 'In the Sticks' columns for the Independent - is the pseudonym of Nicola Davies, a zoologist and children's writer. She lives in Devon with her partner, her two children, one dog, and varying numbers of bantams and Shetland sheep.

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