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Clare Mackintosh brings you the most moving book you’ll read this year. After the End is powerful, uplifting and full of hope.
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AFTER THE END CLARE MACKINTOSH
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Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. Only now they’re facing the most important decision of their lives – and they don’t agree. With the consequences of an impossible choice threatening to devastate them both, nothing will ever be the same again.
But anything can happen after the end . . .
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