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In The Stars (Part 2) Episode 8: Leo (Hiding Behind The Couch) Kindle Edition
It’s Toby Brown’s first birthday, and he’s not the only one in for a surprise;
Josh abandons his professionalism to help a desperate client;
Andy treats himself to something he’s wanted for a very long time.
This episode follows on from In The Stars Part 2 Episode 7: Cancer.
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"You must learn to look beyond the evidence. It shows only what you wish to believe is real, not what you really wish to believe."
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love...
(Hamlet, Shakespeare)
The Circle is in flux. It's been a hectic six months, and as the friends head into the heat of summer, more trials await that will truly test the bonds of friendship.
For whilst a circle may contract and may even at times constrict, it can also expand, accommodate, embrace.
And it is always whole.
Eternal.
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In The Stars Parts I and II follows the day-to-day lives of The Circle - nine friends from high school who are now it their late thirties, through a year of celebration, loss, illness and life-changing decisions.
'Leo' is the eighth episode of In The Stars. For those readers unfamiliar with the series, 'Capricorn' (episode one) re-introduces the main characters, so you could pick it up from here and perhaps catch up with the previous books later (I hope you will!).
The full novels of In The Stars Part I (Capricorn–Gemini) and In The Stars Part II (Cancer–Sagittarius) are also available for purchase as a paperbacks and ebooks.
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What readers say about the Hiding Behind The Couch Series:
"The remarkable characterisation in these novels is what makes them for me."
"This story reminds me of my favorite movies about friendship and relationships."
"Few authors have explored the depths of longtime friends within a group, or 'circle' the way Debbie McGowan has!"
"I have a love-hate relationship with Debbie McGowan's Hiding Behind the Couch Series. I love to read them, I HATE it when they're over."
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 24, 2014
- File size3.4 MB
Product details
- ASIN : B00M3K6BCG
- Publisher : Beaten Track Publishing
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : July 24, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 3.4 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 152 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781909192690
- ISBN-13 : 978-1909192690
- Page Flip : Enabled
About the author

Debbie McGowan is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction that celebrates life, love and relationships in all their diversity. Since the publication in 2004 of her debut novel, Champagne—based on a stage show co-written and co-produced with her husband—she has published many further works—novels, short stories and novellas—including two ongoing series: Hiding Behind The Couch (a literary ‘soap opera’ centring on the lives of nine long-term friends) and Checking Him Out (LGBTQ romance). Debbie has been a finalist in both the Rainbow Awards and the Bisexual Book Awards, and in 2016, she won the Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for her novel, When Skies Have Fallen: a British historical romance spanning twenty-three years, from the end of WWII to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Through her independent publishing company, Debbie gives voices to other authors whose work would be deemed unprofitable by mainstream publishing houses.
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