Katy Regan

There are some people you can't imagine life without. What, at the end of it all, is really important? Liv and her friends can't imagine a life different from now: freedom, lifelong friendships, and dreams that are still within their reach. Then Liv dies. For those left behind - Mia, Fraser, Anna, Norm and Melody - everything stops. Their lives and dreams are frozen in time. In the years that follow, they decide to meet on Liv's birthday to raise a toast and celebrate her life, even though none of them are living their own - not really. Time marches inexorably on, and yet without Liv, the lynchpin of the group, they are all flailing. Mia and Fraser are quietly falling apart because of the secret they share and, as truths are unearthed and their friendships are tested to the limit, they have to ask themselves - is it time to get on with the business of actually living?

There is no story of me without the story of you I want to explain it all to you. How this happened. How that summer - the summer I was 16 - made me the person I am today. I want to share my memories with you: the happy memories are like sunbursts, sparkling on the sea. But then, like a current dragging me under, there's that summer of 1997. The summer my life exploded. The summer I had to grow up. The summer you came into my life. And so this is the story of you.

**Previously published in hardback as Little Big Man** `Katy Regan broke my heart and put it back together again with Little Big Love' - Lucy Diamond Liam Jones is the love of Juliet's life. He was her brother's best friend first, then hers, then the father of her son. In those shining weeks after Zac was born, she'd never been happier, and neither had Liam. Until the night he disappeared without a trace. Zac is now ten, and collects facts: octopuses have three hearts; the world's heaviest man weighed over 100 stone; only three species of animal have a blue tongue. The one piece of information he really wants, though, is the truth about why his father left. His family refuse to talk about that night but when Juliet inadvertently admits to him Liam is the only man she's ever loved, Zac decides to find him and give his mum a second chance at happy ever after. After all, nothing can stand in the way of true love . . . Or can it? `A big-hearted, brilliantly pitched tale about family, love and finding your place in the world' - Heat `Poignant, funny and heartbreaking with a story that stays with you long after you have put it down'- Psychologies `Beautifully written and brimming with people to love and root for . . . Had me from the first page' - Lisa Jewell