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Book Club Meets: Holiday romance and friendship in your 40s, with Chloe Ashby

Happy Place by Fearne Cotton

Aug 27, 202635:12Society & Culture

For 20 years Maggie and Will have spent idyllic summers in the south of France with their friends Lydia and Roland. This year though, tension is brewing and loyalties are being tested. Their young kids are all there too,...

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