IT WAS A SECRET AFFAIR. UNTIL IT WAS A PUBLIC SCANDAL.<\/b>
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\n‘Lyrical, brutal and passionate. I devoured it’ <\/b>
\nMIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Evocative, sensitive and compelling . . . F<\/b>ires directly at the heart and hits the mark’ <\/b>
\nDELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing<\/i><\/b>
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\n‘A love story like no other’ <\/b>
\nCHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the Dark<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help thinking they were right. <\/b><\/p>\n
Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.<\/p>\n
It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.<\/p>\n
But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth’s certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it’s wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?<\/p>\n
A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country<\/i> is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.<\/b><\/p>\n
READERS LOVE BROKEN COUNTRY <\/i><\/b>?????
\n‘This book is everything. Love, heartbreak and hope’
\n‘Will break you into pieces and then put you back together again’
\n‘I was absolutely gripped and didn’t want it to end’
\n‘If I could give more than five stars, I would. Perfect’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help think they were right. She was 17 when she’d first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank who picked up the pieces. Together they’d built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. And there was a time – even years – when she was happy. Watching her husband and son riding a tractor across their farm, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But then Gabriel came back, and all Beth’s certainty about who she was crumbled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[26816,69,1083,3177],"class_list":["post-106993","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-fiction-hardback","product_tag-crime-mystery-fiction","product_tag-historical-fiction","product_tag-historical-romance","product_tag-rural-communities","pa_book_author-leslie-hall-clare","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","pa_edition-hardback-original","pa_imprint-john-murray","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8634","pa_publisher-john-murray","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n