Dear Thing - Hardcover

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Julie Cohen grew up in Maine and studied English at Brown University and Cambridge University. She moved to the UK to research fairies in Victorian children’s literature at the University of Reading and this was followed by a career teaching English at secondary level. She now writes full time and is a popular speaker and teacher of creative writing. She lives with her husband and their son in Berkshire.

Talk with Julie on Twitter: @julie_cohen or visit her website: www.julie-cohen.com.

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Dear Thing,

Once upon a time, when we still believed in wishes, there lived a prince and a princess. The prince was handsome and clever, and the princess was beautiful and good, and they were deeply in love.

That's something you might ask about one day, when you're older. What is love? Some people think it's magic. Some people think it's biology. In this case, the prince and his princess seemed meant for each other.

I wish you'd been there to see it. In a way, you were there; the princess and the prince had certainly thought of you. They already wanted you. A perfect child, who would make their love complete.

But the years went by, and they went by, and you never appeared.

It's not much of a fairy tale, is it?

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This is the story of Claire and Ben, who are perfectly in love - in fact, who are seemingly perfect in almost every way. Except one. They can't have a baby.

It's also the story of Ben's best friend Romily, who after years of watching Ben and Claire suffer, offers to have a baby for them.

But being pregnant stirs up all kinds of feelings in Romily - feelings she'd rather keep buried, but can't. Now there are two mothers - and one baby who belongs to both of them, and which only one of them can keep.

Thought-provoking, heart-rending but ultimately uplifting, Dear Thing is a book you won't be able to put down, until you pass it on to your best friends.