Read by Kate Louise Okello

It's Elissa's birthday, but her boyfriend doesn't seem to care much - and she's accidentally scheduled herself a cervical smear instead of birthday drinks. Then there's her borderline-psychotic boss, the fact she's not making but money at her internship, and her sinking feeling she might not really be in love. At least you can't be lonely if you're not alone. Right? But Elissa's just-good-enough existence is about to change, with single life, redundancy and homelessness all on the horizon. Signing up to live with an elderly person in return for free bed and board suddenly looks like her best option. Elissa has no idea that Annie will turn out to be a woman of secrets and swearwords, and that living with her is about to shake up everything Elissa thought her twenties should be

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