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Don’t Ask
Don’t Ask
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A DNA ancestry test opens up a Pandora's Box of secrets. 


When Elsa Watson takes a DNA ancestry test out of idle curiosity she little imagines the devastating consequences she is about to unleash. 


Two families become reluctantly entwined as inconvenient truths and long suppressed memories resurface. 


A #whodunnit with a difference, Don’t Ask visits the glam rock Seventies, Britpop, Operation Yewtree and #metoo within its alternating past and present chapter structure.

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Release dateApr 28, 2021
ISBN9781800469549
Don’t Ask
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Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll has been drawn to ink and the written word for as long as he can remember. Born and raised in Leeds, Paul studied English at the University of Manchester, and went on to form his own PR consultancy, Communique, which he ran for many years. Nowadays, Paul concentrates on his writing. His first book, A Matter of Life and Death, was published by Matador in 2012.

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