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Автор Gemma Burgess

The Dating Detox

Gemma Burgess

Published by Avon an imprint of

HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2009

This ebook edition published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2017

Copyright © Gemma Burgess 2009

Gemma Burgess asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780007332823

Version: 2016-10-31

For Anika and Paul

Contents

Nine months ago

I knew the second I walked into this party that it wouldn’t be any fun.

Every person here looked around when we walked in. Then they welcomed Rick and ignored me. That was two hours ago and now here I am, in my stupid librarian costume, sitting in the kitchen alone, trying to enjoy myself and failing. Very. Badly.