The Girl She Was

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Author
Rebecca Freeborn
Publisher
Pantera Press
Genre
Fiction
Released
31 March, 2020
ISBN
9780648508434

The Girl She Was

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Synopsis

‘She’d long ago stopped wondering whether anyone would find out what she’d done. It was in the past, and Layla didn’t dwell on the past.’At the cafe in the small town of Glasswater Bay where she works after school, seventeen-year-old Layla enters into a volatile relationship with her married boss.Twenty years later, she receives a message from her former boss’s wife.As Layla relives the events from her youth that have shaped her present, her past starts to infiltrate her life in a way she can no longer ignore.She’s run from her town, her friends and the memory of what she’s done. Now she must face them all.

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              Rebecca Freeborn
              About the author

              Rebecca Freeborn

              Rebecca Freeborn lives in the beautiful Adelaide Hills with a husband, three kids, a dog, a cat, a horse, more books than she can fit in her bookcase and an ever-diminishing wine collection. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Professional and Creative Communications and now works as a communications and content editor for the South Australian Government where she screams into the void against passive voice and unnecessary capitalisation. Rebecca loves strong, witty female characters, and wrote Hot Pursuit because she wanted to escape the focus on fashion and personal appearance that is so common in contemporary women 's fiction. She writes before the sun comes up and spends her moments of spare time reading novels and feminist articles and compulsively checking Facebook.`

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