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PUBLISHER: Cargo

ISBN: 9781908885586

PAGES: 314 pages

PUBLICATION DATE:
March 7, 2014

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Head For The Edge, Keep Walking

Jill Beech’s nine-year relationship is over, so she swaps one job for another, she gets tipsy with offbeat friends and she internet dates. Feeling stuck, life is suddenly flipped on its head by some shocking news – she has cervical cancer. A simple operation to remove part of her cervix becomes a two-week hospital stay will Jill refusing to speak, such is the depth of her shock. But can a kitten called Cyril – or a handsome man called Roy – help Jill to recover her life?

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