I Invited Her In

Author/Guide: Adele Parks

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2000s: Be careful who you let in…

ISBN: 978-0008284619
Genre: Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

When Mel hears from a long-lost friend in need of help, she doesn’t hesitate to invite her to stay. Mel and Abi were best friends back in the day, sharing the highs and lows of student life, until Mel’s unplanned pregnancy made her drop out of her studies.

Now, seventeen years later, Mel and Abi’s lives couldn’t be more different. Mel is happily married, having raised her son on her own before meeting her husband, Ben. Now they share gorgeous girls and have a chaotic but happy family home, with three children.

Abi, meanwhile, followed her lover to LA for a glamorous life of parties, celebrity and indulgence. Everything was perfect, until she discovered her partner had been cheating on her. Seventeen years wasted, and nothing to show for it. So what Abi needs now is a true friend to lean on, to share her grief over a glass of wine, and to have some time to heal. And what better place than Mel’s house, with her lovely kids, and supportive husband…

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Birmingham/London

The story starts in Birmingham where the two friends were at university together. Then their paths literally went in very different directions when Melanie ended up in living halfway between Northampton and Coventry.

Abi has spent much of her time living the highlife in LA but returns to the UK her career and life in tatters. She’s eager to see Mel again..

The entire novel takes place in Mel’s home and her life – Abi is invited in to her home and well……find out for yourself where they both end up. There are a few flashbacks to London when Mel first finds out she is pregnant and later when trips between Abi and Liam spend some time. (the restaurant in the Shard sounds nice!)

Not a novel for locations, but one for getting inside someone’s head and visiting your past.