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Love on the Rocks
Marriage and Other Games
The Beach Hut
The Birthday Party
The Long Weekend
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The Beach Hut Next Door
High Tide
How to Find Love in a Book Shop
The Forever House
A Family Recipe
Christmas at the Beach Hut
A Home from Home
A Wedding at the Beach Hut
THE HONEYCOTE NOVELS
(previously published as Honeycote)
A Country Life
(previously published as Making Hay)
A Country Wedding
(previously published as Just a Family Affair)
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Orion Fiction,
an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment,
London EC4Y 0DZ
An Hachette UK company
Copyright © Veronica Henry 2021
The moral right of Veronica Henry to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (eBook) 978 1 4091 9582 5
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