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|title=My Dearest Jonah

|author=Matthew Crow

|publisher=Legend Press

|date=May 2012

|summary=A fast moving and sometimes brutal thriller following two pen-friends try to escape their pasts and outwit fate to forge a new future, whatever that may entail. It may be laid out as letters, but that small technical point can be (and is a better read if) ignored.

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Jonah and Verity start to write to each other as part of a pen-pal scheme. They may only meet on paper but, as they reveal themselves and their pasts through their letters, they become the only constant in each of their existences, and what existences. Jonah has a troubled past (to put it mildly) including a stint in prison and a father serving a life sentence. Verity is the product of working class parents with aspirations which she has failed or refused to meet, splitting her working life between the local coffee shop and the local strip joint. Their futures begin to appear a lot brighter than their pasts but then clouds gather to prove that appearances can be deceptive.