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From Liz Harris, award-winning author of The Dark Horizon comes an epic story of love, loss and betrayal that follows the lives of four girls in London.
Confident that the woman with whom Robert, her husband of nine years, has run off, wouldn’t be one of the three girls who’d been her closest friends since they’d started sharing a place in Camden Town eleven years earlier, Caroline walks up to the door of the house where, she’s discovered, Robert is living with the unknown woman, and rings the bell.
Reeling from shock when she hears the voice of the woman inside the house, her mind sweeps back to Camden Town eleven years ago, and the reader follows the story of trainee barrister Emily, would-be actress Terri Lee, PA Louise, and of Caroline herself.
The final chapter returns to the present, and the reader learns which of the three girls has stolen Caroline’s husband.
The Best Friend is perfect for readers of Penny Vincenzi, Danielle Steele, Jilly Cooper, Diane Chamberlain and Barbara Taylor Bradford.
What readers are saying about The Dark Horizon
B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree (Book Readers Appreciation Group).
Spanning the post-WWI period through the Great Depression in England and America, Harris delivers an addictive saga reminiscent of early Barbara Taylor Bradford. Historical Novel Society Review.
I absolutely LOVED this novel and I am looking forward to reading the second part of the trilogy. Heidi Gallacher (Goodreads)
Motivation, a characteristic of excellent storytelling, comes over as a particular strength in this novel. Carol McGrath (Amazon)
This page-turning family drama has been carefully researched and brought to life by the details that capture the atmosphere and time period. Charlotte Betts (Amazon)
The Dark Horizon is an excellent novel which grips the reader from beginning to end. (Amazon Customer).
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 10, 2021
- File size760 KB
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- ASIN : B094HH7QLZ
- Publisher : Heywood Press (June 10, 2021)
- Publication date : June 10, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 760 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Best Sellers Rank: #217,885 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #499 in Women's Sagas
- #919 in Biographical Fiction (Books)
- #1,618 in Contemporary Literary Fiction
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About the author

After graduating in Law in the UK, Liz moved to California where she led a varied life - from cocktail waitressing on Sunset Strip to secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company. Upon returning to England, she completed a degree in English and then taught for a number of years before developing her writing career.
Her debut novel, THE ROAD BACK, was voted Book of the Year 2012 by US Coffee Time & Romance, and in the following year, A BARGAIN STRUCK was shortlisted for the RoNA for Best Romantic Historical. These and THE LOST GIRL, EVIE UNDERCOVER, THE ART OF DECEPTION, the last two being contemporary novels set in Italy, were shortlisted in their respective categories by the Festival of Romantic Fiction. A WESTERN HEART, a novella set in Wyoming 1880, was published digitally and as an audio book.
THE DARK HORIZON introduced readers to The Linford Series, a sweeping saga set between the wars. It was followed by THE FLAME WITHIN and THE LENGTHENING SHADOW. Each of three books can be read as a standalone, and they are now available in a box set, THE LINFORD COLLECTION.
Her most recent novels, DARJEELING INHERITANCE, COCHIN FALL, HANOI SPRING and SIMLA MIST comprise THE COLONIALS. Each is a standalone set in a different location, with different characters, in different years.
EINE ERBSCHAFT IN DARJEELING, the translation into German of DARJEELING INHERITANCE, was published in July 2022, and was followed by LIEBE UND VERRAT IN COCHIN (the German version of COCHIN FALL) in October 2022.
AM TAGESENDE (THE DARK HORIZON) was published in February, 2023, and will be followed later in the year by DIE WIEDERKEHR (THE FLAME WITHIN) and IM DÄMMERLICHT (THE LENGTHENING SHADOW).
All of Liz's German translations are by Ingrid Price-Gschlössl.
A second edition of THE ROAD BACK was published in August 2022, and this was followed by the publication in November 2022 of IN A FAR PLACE, which tells the story of one of the characters in THE ROAD BACK, the missionaries' son, Peter Henderson.
Liz now lives in Windsor, Berkshire. She's a member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association, The Historical Novel Society, and The Society of Authors. She gives talks and workshops at literary festivals and conferences. Her hobbies are theatre, cinema, reading and cryptic crosswords.
Visit Liz at her website, www.lizharrisauthor.com, where you can sign up to her monthly newsletter, and receive a free novel as a thank-you.
Follow Liz on Twitter (@lizharrisauthor) on Facebook (Liz Harris Author), on Instagram (liz.harris.52206).
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The book was written in an easy-to-read style. The chapter lengths were good and the relationships each had were interesting to read about. The relationships between each of the women, with very different personalities was interesting, too.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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A really fabulous story I couldn't put down.