By the Time You Read This

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Lola Jaye. By the Time You Read This

By the Time You Read This

Contents

Prologue

With Stars On

Try Not To Be a Wimp

Teabags Bursting with Hormones

Fact: Humiliations Will Only Get Worse with Age

There’s a Good Way and a Bad Way To Do It

Do as I Say, Not as I Did

Have Life Will Travel

Believe in Yourself

Keep Moving

Take a Risk

Do We Ever Really Grow Up?

Our Song

The Best

You Never Get Used to Being the Lamppost

Mistakes Are Okay

Do Something Silly

Your Longest Chapter My Shortest

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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LOLA JAYE

Apparently they fell in love as he called out ‘Legs eleven’ in a smoke-filled hall in Lewisham, packed with bored housewives ticking off paper boxes. Eyes down, cross off a number and another, until some wailing overweight woman shouts ‘House!’ to anyone who gives a damn. I hate them. I hate bingo. And sometimes I hate Mum. But most of all, I hate him. For ordering me about, telling me to call him Dad, for pretending to be my dad and, most of all, for not being my dad.

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‘Nothing’s wrong with it. I’m just not hungry, Mum.’

‘Aren’t you feeling well?’

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