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Recently married to Dermot and tipped as Ireland's hottest new designer, Celine Moore is relaxed, happy and looking forward to an exciting future. Why then, just five years later, is she barely able to hold her head up high in her local Dublin neighbourhood, at odds with her father and sister-in-law, and accepting a job in a second-hand clothes shop?

Celine's life changed the night Dermot failed to return from work. The shock of Dermot's violent end destroys all her happiness and ambition. Aching loneliness and anger take their place, and without thinking through the consequences, Celine embarks on an affair with a married man. Desperate to put some distance between herself and the local gossips, a new start in a new place and a new job seems like the perfect opportunity to start again.

But it's not long before she realises that however much you try to run away, your past has a habit of catching up with you dramatically in the end...
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Not a bad read if a bit simplistic. Some of the conversations are stilted and unrealistic, and why-oh-why does she have to invite the married man up to her flat when a simple phone call will do. I enjoyed it but I did find lots of bits annoying too.

Given to a freecycler who needed some reading matter.