A fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-belly dancer Evangeline’s fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her into the seedy underworld of her past – the first book in Louisa Young’s celebrated Anglo-Egyptian trilogy of Evangeline Gower novels.Evangeline is a single parent whose child is the daughter of her sister, who was killed in a motorbike accident. Evangeline, who was driving the bike, sustained injuries which put an end to her belly dancing career. She now leads an exemplary life, writing and looking after Lily. But when she gets into trouble with the police, she is drawn into the shadowy world of drug dealers, pornographers and bent coppers that seems to have bizarre connections with her sister’s past.With a plot that makes you rush to the end, this is a thriller without violence, a romance without sentiment and a brilliantly exciting novel.
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Louisa Young. Baby Love
BABY LOVE. The Angeline Gower Trilogy. Louisa Young
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Praise for The Angeline Gower Trilogy:
Dedication
Introduction
ONE. An Argument
TWO. In the Pub with Ben
THREE. Us Then
FOUR. Tea with Jim
FIVE. In the Park with Harry
SIX. Harry in His Showroom
SEVEN. Eddie’s House
EIGHT. Dinner with Eddie
NINE. Lunch with Harry
TEN. Looking after Lily
ELEVEN. Learning
TWELVE. Flowers from Eddie
THIRTEEN. Janie’s Tea-chest
FOURTEEN. Unsettling
FIFTEEN. Eddie Again
SIXTEEN. Out
SEVENTEEN. Showtime
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Louisa Young
About the Publisher
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‘A stylishly literate thriller’ Marie Claire
‘You will keep coming back to this book when you should be doing something else’ LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES
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When he came he said the only thing to do was to get the baby out of hospital as soon as it was safe to do so, take her home, and hold tight. Apply for parental responsibility. If Jim showed an interest, fight it out. ‘Get her home and love her and be a good parent,’ he said. ‘Any judge will respect that. And get married.’
You see why I find it hard to be mean to Neil. The petunias gleamed at me like clear thoughts in a mist of confusion. It’s been three years and for those three years Jim has not turned up. I kept track of him. He is well off and well respected, and his nature remains better known to me than to the police or to anyone with any influence over the situation. It’s up to me to make sure he never sees Lily again.
