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First published by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2014Copyright © Millytheink Ltd., 2014This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. ® and © 1997 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.The right of Milly Johnson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 1st Floor 222 Gray’s Inn Road London WC1X 8HBwww.simonandschuster.co.ukSimon & Schuster Australia, Sydney Simon & Schuster India, New DelhiA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Libraryebook ISBN: 978-1-47113-388-6This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Dear Readers,This novella is a little thank-you for all your support, lovely letters, e-mails, kind tweets and facebook messages and is dedicated to you.As you may already know, I treated myself to my first cruise as a fortieth birthday treat and spent the weeks before leaving in a state of panic that I’d totally done the wrong thing and that my children would be swept overboard and eaten by sharks and I would be bored rigid. That, thankfully, didn’t happen. I fell in love with that way of holidaying so much that I wanted everyone else to as well. I wrote Here Come the Girls after a wonderful cruise during which I saw my first sights of Venice, Dubrovnik and the beautiful Korčula. It’s one of my most popular books and features some of my favourite characters. Doreen and Vernon were minor characters in that book but I couldn’t let go of them and so they keep turning up in other books – like this one.The idea for this story came from something that actually happened during the summer of 2012. ‘How can you miss a ship?’ I’ve said a few times over the years, when passengers are stranded ashore. Then I missed the ship, with my two sons in tow. A lot of Angie’s and Selina’s experiences were ours too. We encountered the Chinese knicker saleswoman, the hairy salad, and had to make a mad dash across several countries to catch up with the ship in Korčula three days later. The full account of this misadventure can be found on my website: www.millyjohnson.co.uk. As an author, of course, nothing is wasted and I had to write about it, partly as therapy.The port representatives really wer ............

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