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Sizzling holiday fling. . . or the real thing? Serena’s Greek island holiday job suddenly improves when roguish pilot Pete arrives! He revels in the thrill of the chase, but never settles down. So one heady month later, what’s keeping Serena in his arms?In a week Alice is dumped and fired – if she hadn’t just won the lottery, she’d feel like the unluckiest woman alive! Then she bumps into gorgeous old flame Will Paxman on a tropical escape and it seems Alice’s luck is about to change…Cleo’s teenage crush is back in Melbourne. Jack Devlin used to treat her like a kid…now he’s treating her like a woman. She’s determined not to fall at his feet – or into his bed – but Jack has other ideas!

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDEHello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you’ll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea.Blackpool, 1959. The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital, this means struggling to fill in her ‘I-Spy’ book and avoiding her mother Ruth’s eagle-eyed supervision. Her sixteen-year-old sister Helen, meanwhile, has befriended a waitress whose fun-loving ways hint at a life beyond Ruth’s strict rules.But times are changing. As foreman of the local cotton mill, Ruth’s husband Jack is caught between unions and owners whose cost-cutting measures threaten an entire way of life. And his job isn’t the only thing at risk. When a letter arrives from Crete, a secret re-emerges from the rubble of Jack’s wartime past that could destroy his marriage.As Helen is tempted outside the safe confines of her mother’s stern edicts, with dramatic consequences, an unexpected encounter inspires Beth to forge her own path. Over the holiday week, all four Singletons must struggle to find their place in a shifting world of promenade amusements, illicit sex and stilted afternoon teas, in this touching and extraordinarily evocative novel.