The House on Willow Street

The House on Willow Street
Cathy Kelly

The warm, engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller, Cathy KellyWelcome to Avalon: a quaint, sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations – least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess and Suki Power grew up.Now, years later, Tess is trying to save her marriage protect her glamorous sister Suki who has come back home, dreams shattered. Similarly, Mara Wilson is seeking refuge from a broken heart at her Aunt Danae’s house. And Danae, the inscrutable postmistress, is hiding some dark memories of her own.Now that the big house is up for sale, change is blowing on the cold sea wind. But before they can look to the future, these four women must face up to the past…

CATHY KELLY

The House on Willow Street

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

Copyright © Cathy Kelly 2012

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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.

Source ISBN: 9780007373611

Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007373642

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To my darling husband, John, and our wonderful sons, Dylan and Murray. And the Puplets of Loveliness, Dinky, Licky, Scamp, who were there for all of it.

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u47b0c5be-4879-5e96-a1d7-8723ff875def)

Copyright (#u63d988c9-1f2c-5b9b-9cda-8b26a7d7e815)

Dedication (#u5fa68153-5db9-5936-8bae-0d957fc343a7)

Prologue (#u95a178dc-1e1a-54cf-9272-6f9881c45607)

Autumn (#u51472df0-a89c-59be-8940-740cf5980cca)

Chapter One (#u628a6ce7-01bc-5eff-8764-11026c801331)

Chapter Two (#u522994d0-605f-50c6-88f0-ea47fabe9c72)

Chapter Three (#u1dec6ab0-35c7-5fd9-a92c-ca25a79f57aa)

Chapter Four (#u643ccfe9-b118-5eab-9375-488f4403369a)

Winter (#uc36a49f7-3e8d-5402-b608-3a6b80179c07)

Chapter Five (#ue879923a-795b-53ba-a70d-756bb83d8ca5)

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Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

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