A Bed of Scorpions (25 page)
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Authors: Judith Flanders
He was right. Vanity, or entitlement, or just sheer greed. What a waste.
I turned to Jake. ‘When will your colleagues be out of my flat?’
His shrug said I shouldn’t hold my breath. I’d slept in Mr Rudiger’s spare room before, and his nod, without my having to ask, said I would be again. I stood up. ‘I’m going to bed.’ I announced my plans firmly, so no one could be under any misapprehension. ‘I’m going to sleep for a week, and by the time I wake up you’ – I pinned Jake with a
particularly hard look ‘
you
will have spoken to your office about us. Because next time, I am really, really not doing this sneaking around crap.’
Next time? Everyone in the room stared at me with varying degrees of disbelief. Well, almost everyone. Helena just smiled.
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J
UDITH
F
LANDERS
was born in London and grew up in Canada. After returning to London she made her career in publishing before she began to write. In 2001 her first book,
A Circle of Sisters
, the biography of four Victorian women, was published to great acclaim and nominated for the
Guardian
First Book Award. She has since written four books on Victorian Britain, including the bestselling
The Victorian House
, nominated for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. Her most recent book,
The Making of Home
, was published in 2014.
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First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2015.
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Copyright © 2015 by J
UDITH
F
LANDERS
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1543–5