Perfect on Paper by Gillian Harvey (top 20 books to read txt) 📕

too – they’re so talented.’

‘That’s great, really great. But actually I meant what about you? How was your day?’

And as she told him all about the boring minutiae of her first day as a #girlboss, she realised with a jolt that he was actually listening.

Acknowledgements

Thanks are owed to the wonderful author Nicola Gill who supported me when I had a book related wobble. And to Natalie Hodencq who stepped up to help just when I needed it.

And to Ger Nichol from the Book Bureau, my lovely agent, who is always so amazingly supportive.

Thanks too to Charlotte Mursell, Victoria Oundjian and Olivia Barber at Orion for their editorial support, to Ellen Turner for her hard work on publicity and to all the people who kept the printing presses running in these challenging times.

Thanks as always to my lovely husband Ray Harvey for clocking up nearly 20 years with me and reading drafts and edits without complaint. For always being supportive and giving good advice, most of the time.

To the lovely #writingcommunity on Twitter who’ve made publishing in 2020/21 more bearable, The D20Authors and Debuts2020/21 groups on Facebook who have helped keep this wobbly show on the road.

To the lovely book bloggers and readers I’ve connected with in the past couple of years.

And to my kids. Thanks for the cuddles that kept me going (and sorry if I squeezed you a bit too hard).

Author Biography

Gillian Harvey is a freelance writer and author, who lives in France with her husband Ray and their five children. Perfect on Paper is her second novel.

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Credits

Gillian Harvey and Orion Fiction would like to thank everyone at Orion who worked on the publication of Perfect on Paper in the UK.

Editorial

Charlotte Mursell

Olivia Barber

Copy editor

Kate Shearman

Proof reader

Laetitia Grant

Audio

Paul Stark

Amber Bates

Contracts

Anne Goddard

Paul Bulos

Jake Alderson

Marketing

Tanjiah Islam

Design

Debbie Holmes

Joanna Ridley

Editorial Management

Charlie Panayiotou

Jane Hughes

Finance

Jasdip Nandra

Afeera Ahmed

Elizabeth Beaumont

Sue Baker

Production

Ruth Sharvell

Publicity

Ellen Turner

Rights

Susan Howe

Krystyna Kujawinska

Jessica Purdue

Richard King

Louise Henderson

Sales

Jen Wilson

Esther Waters

Victoria Laws

Rachael Hum

Ellie Kyrke-Smith

Frances Doyle

Georgina Cutler

Operations

Jo Jacobs

Sharon Willis

Lisa Pryde

Lucy Brem

AN ORION EBOOK

First published in Great Britain in 2021

by Orion Fiction

an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment

London EC4Y 0DZ

An Hachette UK Company

Copyright © Gillian Harvey 2021

The moral right of Gillian Harvey to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

All the characters in this book, except for those already in the public domain, are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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

ISBN (eBook) 978 1 4091 9190 2

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Lymington, Hants

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