Quite a few children’s books seem to have that message.’ Charlotte Allen Anna thought it was impressive, but not surprising, that Michelle had the power to raise a team of builders to refit a shop at a time when most people couldn’t even persuade a plumber to leave his Yuletide sofa to unblock a U-bend. She wasn’t quite sure what she was doing herself, knee-deep in Mills and Boons on New Year’s Eve, but here she was, nonetheless, taking orders from a bright-eyed Michelle while Owen loitered in the background, waiting to do all the heavy lifting they required. He looked hungover already, his dark hair falling into his face, dressed in an old college T-shirt and jeans that showed off the top inch of his checked boxer shorts, but Michelle insisted that he was ready to work. If he ever stopped texting. ‘So, new stock in the front, second-hand in the back. And junk about four-fifths of what we’ve got here?’ Michelle had to raise her voice over the sound of Lorcan the builder’s team of denim-clad decorators in the main area.
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