Bang Goes the Weasle

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My Love Lies Bleeding ALYXANDRA HARVEY Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin and New York First published in Great Britain in January 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 36 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QY First published in the US in 2010 by Walker Publishing, Inc 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 This electronic edition published in January 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Copyright © Alyxandra Harvey 2009 The moral right of the author has been asserted All rights reserved. You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, printing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library eISBN: 978-1-40880-878-8 www.bloomsbury.com/childrens www.alyxandraharvey.com Visit www.bloomsbury.com to find out more about our authors and their books. You will find extracts, authors’ interviews, author events and you can sign up for newsletters to be the first to hear about our latest releases and special offers.

PROLOGUE

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Friday, early evening Normally I wouldn’t have been caught dead at a field party. If you’ll pardon the pun. This was a supreme sacrifice on my part for my best friend, Solange, who was having a really bad day, which was about to turn into a really bad week. Her sixteenth birthday was coming up, and we weren’t talking a new car and a pink dress for her sweet sixteen. Not in her family. This wasn’t much better though. She was standing in the middle of a field, trying to drink cheap wine and pretend she didn’t want to be anywhere but here. The music was passable but that was about all it had to recommend it. The...