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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Broken country</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hall, Clare Leslie</namePart>
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  <genre authority="lcgft">Romance fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Historical fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft">Thrillers (Fiction)</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2025</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2025</copyrightDate>
    <edition>First Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>307 pages ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager--the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Clare Leslie Hall.</note>
  <note>Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by John Murray (Publishers).</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Farm life</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Country life</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Homecoming</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sons</topic>
    <topic>Death</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>First loves</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Secrecy</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Adultery</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>North Dorset (England)</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781668078181</identifier>
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