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Spend the afternoon with Sunday Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain

Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of 24 novels will be visiting the UK from America in January and to celebrate the publication of her new novel Pretending to Dance, already an international bestseller, we are excited to be able to offer three reading groups the rare opportunity to come together to meet the author for afternoon tea in London.

To be in with a chance of winning we want to know in no more than 200 words why your reading group should be picked to meet Diane!

Our three winning reading groups will each receive 10 copies of the book and be invited to enjoy afternoon tea with the author at a London location on Friday 29 January.

To enter please login and tell us why we should pick your group by 7 December.

The publisher is able to contribute to group travel expenses.

About the book

When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . .

It’s the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly’s playground. She’s well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he’s written about a method called ‘Pretend Therapy’; her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own; and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land. The adults in Molly’s life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly’s security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family – a plan she can’t stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare.

Diane Chamberlain

Diane Chamberlain is the bestselling author of twenty-four novels. Her storylines are often a combination of romance, family drama, intrigue and suspense. She lives in Northern Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole.

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