Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers

Category: Fiction: general and literary

By My Side

Alice Peterson

One step can change everything… Cass Brooks wishes she could turn back time. She’d go back to that morning and retrace her steps. Her boyfriend would still be with her. Her mother wouldn’t be nagging her to plan a new future when all she wants is her old life back. Everything seems out of reach. But when Ticket, the most intelligent and devoted golden Labrador, bursts into Cass’s life and chooses her, she dares to dream that she can be happy again. Then on a flight she sits next to Charlie, who believes he can show her a life full of possibilities.
But will Cass let him? Can she let herself believe that with Ticket and Charlie, maybe she has a future after all?

Paperback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9781835012024

Published: September 25, 2025

Extent: 320 pages

Ebook

RRP: £6.99

ISBN: 9781835012031

Published: September 25, 2025

Alice Peterson

Growing up, Alice was always known to family and friends as, ‘Alice, the tennis player’. Aged 18, she was on the verge of signing a tennis scholarship to America, but fate had other ideas. She began to experience pain in her right hand, which then developed into rheumatoid arthritis – an autoimmune condition which has been life-changing in every way. Alice’s writing career began in her early 20s, encouraged by a friend who believed she might find it therapeutic to process the loss of her tennis and old life. Alice’s books are infused with her experience of adversity and grief, …

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