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  Why is Nick away so often? Where is the laughter? And what is happening to the children?

  We all want a perfect life, but at what price?

  ‘Evocatively written, provocatively pitched, it tells how time can pick away at the fabric of relationships’ Good Housekeeping

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  First published in Great Britain by Macmillan Children’s Books 2004

  This electronic edition published by Bloomsbury 2014

  Copyright © 2004 Raffaella Barker

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  ISBN 978 1 4088 5313 9

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