A Second Chance

By Joan Argenta

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456886974

Joan Argenta

She is a housewife, English, writing her first novel, a fiction thriller, which develops into an exciting murder story, with love, and visits to Paris, and the Cote dAzure. She enjoys company, and people who have interesting lifestyles, especially the unusual. She also enjoys travelling, which helps to widen her writing horizons.

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Copyright © 2011 by Joan Argenta.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2011904174

ISBN: Hardcover    978-1-4568-8696-7

ISBN: Softcover      978-1-4568-8695-0

ISBN: Ebook            978-1-4568-8697-4

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover Illustration by Dan Drewes

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It was a day in November. One of those dull miserable days. Tommy Parsons was fifteen years old, with one brother, two years younger, named Stuart. Their Father was a drunkard, who had gone off, two years ago, leaving their Mother to bring up the boys single-handed.

She moved away from the old house, as she thought it would be much better for the three of them, to make a new start in another neighberhood, away from the scandal-mongers, with their wagging tongues.

Ravensbrook, their new location, was more upper class, and Mazy Parsons, the boys Mother, knew it was not going to be easy, trying to make ends meet, but she would do her utmost, to see that her two boys didn’t go short of anything. Luxuries of course, would be beyond her financial limitation.

She secured an office job for herself, in one of the nearby supermarkets. The pay wasn’t all that good, but it would have to suffice, for the time-being. Maybe she could supplement it, with an odd job of some description.

Tommy and Stuart had started their schooling, in their new neighberhood, on this first day of the week, Monday. Tommy waited for his younger brother, following his