The Woman I Was Before

A new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place ...Kate Jones is running away. She has left her old life behind, changing both her own name and her daughter’s. No-one must ever connect Kate with the mistake that destroyed her life.Starting afresh on Parkview Road – a brand new street full of newly built houses – Kate looks at the other women on the street with envy. They seem to have it all: Gisela with her busy life, full house and successful children, Sally with her exciting spontaneous marriage, her glamorous holidays, her high-flying career. The pictures that Kate's new friends post online confirm their seemingly perfect existence, whilst Kate hides from the world at all costs.Until one day, everything changes. Kate is called to the scene of a devastating accident, which is about to test everything the women thought they knew about each other, and themselves.

'It's been a long time since I read a whole book in 24 hours but there was no way I was putting down The Woman I Was Before. No one writes complex, painful family love like Kerry Fisher. Real and raw but funny too. Loved it!' -- Iona Gray, award-winning author of Letters to the Lost

Kerry Fisher is an internationally bestselling author. Her novels include The Woman I Was Before, The Silent Wife and The Secret Child. She was born in Peterborough, studied French and Italian at the University of Bath and spent several years living in Spain, Italy and Corsica. After returning to England to work as a journalist, she eventually abandoned real life stories for the secrets of fictional families. She now lives in Surrey with her husband, two teenage children and a naughty Lab/Schnauzer called Poppy. Emma Spurgin Hussey is an English actress, writer and director. She played Mrs Zacky Martin in the historical drama Poldark and has appeared as Clare Milson in Doc Martin, in films The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022) and An English Haunting (2020). Emma has narrated a range of audiobooks by Kerry Fisher including The Woman in My Home and Other People’s Marriages.

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