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Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \n# LOUIS ECA N DLISH\n\nLouise Candlish is the Sunday Timesbestselling author of The Other Passengerand thirteen other novels.Our House wonthe Crime &Thriller Book of the Year atthe 2019 British Book Awards.It is nowin development for a major TV series.Louise lives in London with her husbandand daughter.  \nThanks to your help,we're getting thenation reading!  \n1 in 6 adults in the UK struggles withreading.Buying this Quick Read couldchange someone's life.  \nFor every Quick Read sold,a copy wilbe donated to someone who findsreading difficult.From mental healthto social mobility,reading has a provenpositive impact on life's big challenges.Find out more:readingagency.org.uk@readingagency\\#QuickReads  \nAlso by Louise CandlishThe Other PassengerThose PeopleOur House  \nThe Swimming Pool  \nThe Sudden Departure of the FrasersThe Disappearance of Emily MarrThe Island HideawayThe Day You Saved My lifeOther People's SecretsBefore We Say GoodbyeI'll Be There For YouThe Second HusbandSince I Don't Have YouThe Double Life of Anna Day  \nLOUIS ECAN DLISH  \ntheskylight  \nSIMON&SCHUSTER  \nFirst published in Great Britain by Simon &Schuster UK Ltd,2021  \nCopyright Louise Candlish,2021  \nThe right of Louise Candlish to be identified as authorof this work has been asserted in accordance with theCopyright,Designs and Patents Act,1988.  \n13579108642  \nSimon &Schuster UK Ltd1st Floor222 Gray's Inn RoadLondon WC1X 8HB  \nSimon &Schuster Australia,SydneySimon &Schuster India,New Delhi  \nwww.simonandschuster.co.ukwww.simonandschuster.com.auwww.simonandschuster.co.in  \nA CIP catalogue record for this bookis available from the British Library  \nPaperback ISBN:978-1-4711-9841-0  \neBook ISBN:978-1-4711-9842-7  \nThis book is a work of fiction.Names,characters,placesand incidents are either a product of the author's imagination or areused fictitiously.Any resemblance to actual people living or dead,events or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nTypeset in Stone Serif by M RulesPrinted and bound by CPI Group(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CRO 4YY  \ntheskylight  \n# Chapter 1The cancelled dinner\n\nJake and I are having a special meal togethertonight.Or I thought we were.But I have justspent my lunch hour shopping for food andwine when he phones to cancel me.  \nWhat a horrible word to apply to people -cancel.As if you no longer exist.  \n'What's the problem?'I say into the phone.I'min the lift by now,going back up to the office.My shopping is heavy in my hand and I knowthere'll be a painful red mark across my palm.  \n'We've got a crisis with a job the new bloke hasto deliver in the morning,'Jake sighs.He oftenmoans about junior IT staff at the college wherehe works.'He's just told me he's struggling to getit done and I can't just leave him on his own.You know how it is,Simone.'  \nWell,I know how it was.When we first startedgoing out,Jake would happily leave younger co-workers to fend for themselves.It's six months  \nsince he moved into my flat and I feel as if we’vegrown further apart,not closer.  \n'Okay,'I tell him,nicely,though I'd like todrop the groceries to the floor and stamp onthem.I feel a rash rising on my neck like a nettlesting.'I might see if Paula wants to go for a drinkafter work.'  \nPaula is my cousin and the only member of myfamily I′m still in regular contact with.  \n'Good idea,'Jake says.  \nThe lift doors open,and I step into the lobbyof the housing charity where I've had a job inadmin for as long as I can remember.Normally,I'm happy here,but suddenly I can't bear thethought of a long afternoon doing the sameold thing.  \n'Don't wait up if you're back home first,'Jakesays before he hangs up.  \nPaula isn't free after work and so I go straighthome,arriving with my shopping at the usualtime of a quarter to seven.My flat takes up thefirst and second floors of 17 Lyle Road,a quiet,red-brick street in 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