The Runaway Wife: A Book Club Recommendation!

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From the internationally bestselling author of Lessons in Laughing Out Loud comes a moving and heartwarming novel about a woman who escapes an abusive relationship and flees with her young daughter in search of a kind stranger she met many years earlier. FIRST YOU LOSE YOUR WAY. THEN YOU FIND YOURSELF.lt When Rose Pritchard flees her abusive husband in the middle of the night, theres only one place she can think of going. Millthwaite is a remote village deep in the Lake District, hundreds of miles from her unhappy home. Its also Roses only link to Frasier McCleod. They met just once, long ago, but his kindness sparked a connection that has sustained her ever since.Rose checks in to a local BB with her young daughter, earning the scrutiny of the nosy landlady and the attention of her charming musician son. After the tumult of Roses marriage, the beauty of the surrounding countryside restores her hope. Here she will seize a chance to reconnect with her estranged father, to watch her anxious daughter grow in confidence, and to discover whether shes been chasing a foolish fantasy in loving a man she hardly knows or following her hearts call.Candid, moving, and unflinchingly honest, this is a powerful story of heartache and new beginnings, friendship and family. Rowan Colemans touching and ultimately triumphant novel is a reminder that its not what you leave behind that defines you but what youre running toward.

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