Cathy Kelly

Homecoming


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      Homecoming

      Cathy Kelly

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       Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

      FIRST EDITION

      Copyright © Cathy Kelly 2010

      Cathy Kelly asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007240449

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2010 ISBN: 9780007411016

      Version: 2019-01-04

       Dedication

       To my husband, John, and to darling Murray and Dylan, with love

      Contents

       Title Page

       6 Mushrooms

       7 Imbolg, festival of light

       8 Soup

       9 Roasts

       10 Feasts

       11 Fish

       12 Other feasts

       13 Spring Equinox

       14 Irish Moss

       15 Holy Days

       16 The Queen of Sheba

       17 Food for the Turfcutters

       18 The Dairy

       19 The Wake

       20 Oats

       21 Herbs

       22 The Homestead

       23 Family reunions

       24 Weddings

       25 Beltane

       Epilogue

       Excerpt from The House on Willow Street

       Prologue

       Chapter One

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       About the Author

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       1 New Year

      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