Homecoming
Cathy Kelly
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
FIRST EDITION
Copyright © Cathy Kelly 2010
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Source ISBN: 9780007240449
Ebook Edition © JULY 2010 ISBN: 9780007411016
Version: 2019-01-04
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