Tully

Tully
Paullina Simons

The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, beautifully repackagedTully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, schoolfriends from very different backgrounds.As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties, the lives of the three best friends are changed forever by two young men, Robin and Jack, and a tragedy which engulfs them all.Against the odds, Tully emerges into young womanhood, marriage and a career. At last Tully Makker has life under control. And then life strikes back in the most unexpected way of all…

Tully

Paullina Simons

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

Copyright © Paullina Simons 1994

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To Alla and Yuri Handler,

my mother and father

Strait is the gate

and narrow is the way

That leads unto Life

And few there be that find it

St Matthew 7:14

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ucccb2da8-6a70-5f74-8ad4-18c45befce8d)

Title Page (#u22192e05-6ffb-5c58-b4e3-fafc09988d1e)

Copyright (#u170a66ef-d5c7-57c3-971a-2414e5e18ffe)

Epigraph (#ufdd18458-c324-514f-99da-9fbd2c6d157c)

I Jennifer Lynn Mandolini (#u5ff3d6cd-4671-5f59-ab49-6ea1152b0f3f)

ONE Three Friends (#u79056654-6876-5f93-8f5a-d07376adc6b0)

TWO The Party (#ube5d83f3-1acb-5064-a3af-d7fa69d6f11b)

THREE Robin (#u72c46e61-af65-53db-bf36-af383ac63c85)

FOUR Winter (#u146d4aca-bc54-5a50-9534-b958b9b03c3b)

FIVE Jennifer (#ua27661e1-6bf0-5beb-b928-be84b229c51b)

II Railroad Days (#u880242ba-84db-582f-95c1-3fbaf26527f0)

SIX A House of Little Illusion (#u8cacb595-8ebd-5316-a750-b855423c6cbb)

SEVEN Jeremy (#litres_trial_promo)

EIGHT Hedda Makker (#litres_trial_promo)

NINE Robin and Jeremy (#litres_trial_promo)

TEN A Postcard from Home (#litres_trial_promo)

III The House on Texas Street (#litres_trial_promo)

ELEVEN Back Home (#litres_trial_promo)

TWELVE Wichita (#litres_trial_promo)

THIRTEEN Infancy (#litres_trial_promo)