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Ghost writer

VERITY, by Colleen Hoover (Sphere, 24.99)

S author Colleen Hoover’s latest novel is likely to have you squirming in your comfy armchair. Young, critically acclaimed but not financially successful author Lowen Ashleigh is asked by her literary agent to pick

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