No One Wants to Be Miss Havisham

No One Wants to Be Miss Havisham
Brigid Coady

**Winner of the RNA Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Scheme Award**‘Dickens with a chick lit makeover, what's not to love??’ – Bestselling author of ‘The Best Thing I Never Had’, Erin LawlessWhat the Dickens is going on?Edie Dickens is a shark of a divorce lawyer. She doesn’t believe in love and she scoffs at happily ever afters, however she’s agreed to be maid of honour for her oldest friend, Mel in two weeks and she still has the hen night to endure. But she has even more to endure when she’s visited by Jessica Marley’s ghost and finds out she must change her ways or end up being damned to an eternity watching other people’s happiness. Edie is visited by the Ghosts of Weddings Past, Present and Future, every Friday night until the day of the wedding. Can she learn from her mistakes in time? And did the ghosts send the hunky new lawyer, Jack Twist, to distract her?

No One Wants to Be Miss Havisham

BRIGID COADY

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Contents

Cover (#u6d0af15e-deb2-5f70-86a1-5361486962fa)

Title Page (#u05fd802d-bfef-5eed-836d-8a3e53a6c88d)

Copyright

Dedication (#ua525fa44-ea75-5167-a71c-a153e894a0fd)

Chapter 1 (#u944e1941-3395-5183-9eb8-3092acbf31ed)

Chapter 2 (#ub3004865-c970-5fcf-8b96-cdabd9cd5b95)

Chapter 3 (#ubcd1ecc0-2598-5c69-a199-0f2a02a0698d)