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Faces whirl past as Kelvin twirls Juliet around the dance floor: famous names waving across the crowd, dressed-down media types murmuring into their phones, celebrity mums cooing over that ludicrously over-the-top cake – a prancing, rainbow-maned unicorn with a golden crown spiked with six candles on its head – and Elsie in gleaming white dungarees and sequined high top trainers queening it over swarms of pushy children clustered around the entertainers. This isn’t a magazine spread. This is Gracie’s life. And here she is, Juliet Beecham, finally on the inside, seeing it for real.

A craggy-faced blond man in faded denim flicks her a glance, tips a bottle of beer to his mouth and disappears into the crowd and there’s Gracie – greeting, laughing, hugging – mistress of it all. While Kelvin is flirting over her shoulder with a waiter half his age, Juliet slips from his grasp, takes another glass from a passing waitress and makes her way towards two stocky men – white shirts, cropped hair, a little too muscly. Juliet knows security when she sees it and she’d noticed them by the door discreetly checking out the guests when she handed in her invitation.

The men separate, nodding and smiling, never quite mingling. She ducks past Dawn and Leslie, knocking back punch in their sweaty, over-made-up best, and approaches the older of the men. He wears an earpiece, holds a can of Coke in thick fingers and doesn’t take long to meet her gaze.

‘Hi.’

Her Perfect Life: A gripping debut psychological thriller with a killer twist

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