Pam Jenoff - The Sweethearts Collection

About the Authors

LINDA FINLAYtrained as an Image Consultant and has an avid interest in people, especially the synergy between appearance and perception and the effect it has on self-esteem. She has always loved writing, her first success was winning a competition in the local paper in Surrey. A move to the spectacular Devonshire coast combined with her passion for local history inspired her to write her novels.

LINDA FINLAYlives on the Devonshire coast and is the author of seven novels. From lace-making to growing Devon violets, each one is based on a local craft which, in order to write authentically, she has learnt to do herself. However, it is people and their problems that make for good story writing and, with so much interesting material to work with, it is easy for Linda to let her imagination run as wild as the West Country landscape which has inspired her writing.

S. C. WORRALLwas born in Wellington, England and spent his childhood in Eritrea, Paris, and Singapore. Since 1984, he has been a full-time freelance journalist and book author. He has written for National Geographic, GQ, The Times and the Guardian . He has also made frequent appearances on Radio and TV, including the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent ; NPR and PBS. He speaks six languages and has lived in or visited more than 70 countries. The Very White of Love is his debut novel.

LIAM CALLANANis the author of the novels The Cloud Atlas and All Saints . His work has appeared in Slate , The New York Times , The Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , Forbes , Good Housekeeping and elsewhere. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife and three daughters, and teaches in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s creative writing program and at Warren Wilson. Visit Liam’s website at www.liamcallanan.com

PAM JENOFFis the author of several novels, including the phenomenal international bestseller The Orphan’s Tale, and Kommandant’s Girl , which was also an international bestseller and earned her a Quill Award nomination. Pam lives with her husband and three children near Philadelphia where, in addition to writing, she teaches law school.

Also by Linda Finlay

The Royal Lacemaker

The Girl with the Red Ribbon

A Family For Christmas

The Sea Shell Girl

Monday’s Child

Orphans and Angels

The Flower Seller

The Royal Lacemaker

The Girl with the Red Ribbon

A Family For Christmas

The Sea Shell Girl

Monday’s Child

Orphans and Angels

Also by Pam Jenoff

Kommandant’s Girl

The Diplomat’s Wife

The Ambassador’s Daughter

The Winter Guest

The Last Embrace

The Orphan’s Tale

The Sweethearts Collection

The Bonbon Girl

Linda Finlay

The Flower Seller

Linda Finlay

The Very White of Love

S. C. Worrall

Paris by the Book

Liam Callanan

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

Copyright

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

The Bonbon Girl © 2018 Linda Finlay The Flower Seller © 2018 Linda Finlay The Very White of Love © 2018 Simon Worrall Paris by the Book © 2018 Liam Callanan The Lost Girls of Paris © 2019 Pam Jenoff

Linda Finlay, S. C. Worrall, Liam Callanan and Pam Jenoff asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9781474095365

Version: 2020-03-02

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Authors

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

The Bonbon Girl

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

The Flower Seller

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Acknowledgements

The Very White of Love

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword

Part One

19 SEPTEMBER 1938: Whichert House

14 OCTOBER 1938: Oxford

22 OCTOBER 1938: Whichert House

12 NOVEMBER 1938: London

CHRISTMAS EVE 1938: Whichert House

12 FEBRUARY 1939: Oxford

25 APRIL 1939: The Oxford Union

25 JUNE 1939: The River Isis, near Oxford

3 AUGUST 1939: Whichert House

5 AUGUST 1939: Whichert House

6 AUGUST 1939: High Wycombe Railway Station

3 SEPTEMBER 1939: Blythe Cottage

23 SEPTEMBER 1939: Whichert House