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|title=Dearest Rose

|author=Rowan Coleman

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780099551270

|pages=440

|publisher=Arrow

|date=September 2012

|summary=Rose Pritchard has finally plucked up the courage to leave her bullying husband, Richard, taking her small daughter, Maddie, with her. Chasing a dream, they arrive in Cumbria where Rose hopes to find the only man who has ever shown her any kindness. Yet, as they settle to their new lives, will Rose be able to face up to reality and take the second chance that life has offered her?

}}

Rose has finally escaped. For years she has put up with her bullying husband and lived with the sadness of her mother's suicide after her father left when she was a young girl. Only once, when she was heavily pregnant with her daughter Maddie, did anyone show her any warmth and kindness and treat her like a human being in her own right. That person was Frasier McCleod, an art dealer who had been trying to trace Rose's father, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artist. Although she couldn't help him, Frasier sent a postcard to thank her and it is the village pictured on that postcard that she makes her way to nine years later when she can put up with her husband's cruelty no more.

Why not also take a look at [[Lessons in Laughing Out Loud by Rowan Coleman|Lessons in Laughing Out Loud]]

[[Category:Women's Fiction]]