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Homecoming
Cathy Kelly
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
FIRST EDITION
Copyright © Cathy Kelly 2010
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Ebook Edition © JULY 2010 ISBN: 9780007411016
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To my husband, John, and to darling Murray and Dylan, with love
Contents
Dedication
Excerpt from The House on Willow Street
It didn’t take long for Eleanor Levine to unpack her things in the apartment in Golden Square. She’d brought just two suitcases on the flight from New York to Dublin. For a simple holiday, two suitcases would probably be too much luggage. But for the sort of trip Eleanor planned, she was travelling light.
When she’d arrived in the hotel in the centre of the city just two weeks before Christmas, the receptionist had just nodded politely when Eleanor said she might need the room for more than the three weeks she’d booked beforehand. Nothing shocked hotel receptionists, even elegant elderly ladies with limited luggage who arrived alone and appeared to have no due date to leave.
Equally, nobody looked askance at Eleanor when she gently turned down the invitation to book for the full Christmas lunch in the hotel’s restaurant and instead asked for an omelette and a glass of prosecco in her room.