Rachel Edwards

Darling: The most shocking psychological thriller you will read this summer


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       Copyright

      4th Estate

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018

      Copyright © Rachel Edwards 2018

      Cover image © Margie Hurwich/Arcangel Images

      Design by Heike Schüssler

      Rachel Edwards 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

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      Source ISBN: 9780008281113

      Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008281137

      Version: 2018-07-06

       Dedication

      To Peter

      and

      Patricia, darling Mum

       Epigraph

      ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?’

      William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       What’s Done is Done

       PART I

       Darling

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       PART II

       Darling

       Dark

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       Darling

       A Thing or Two

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       PART III

       Darling

       Red Flowers

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       Darling

       Lola

       Darling

       What’s Done is Done

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       What’s Done is Done

      It took less than six months for everything to fall apart. Six months of fighting, competing, whispering, each of us trying to be better, to love him better.

      I knew she was trouble from the moment I saw her. I felt it as she stood in our doorway that day: disaster. Not just because she was so different – that skin and that hair, as opposite to me as it’s possible to be. More than the way she always looked through me, right past me, straight at him. There was something wrong about her. Wrong for us. We would