Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles
Anne Bennett

The latest heartrending tale of hope and heartache from bestselling author Anne Bennett. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.Maeve Brannigan is only eighteen when she leaves her rural home in County Donegal and moves to Birmingham, where she falls in love with handsome Brendan Hogan. But married life isn’t as idyllic as she’d imagined, and when Maeve falls pregnant with their first child, she soon realises that Brendan isn’t the man she thought he was.Saddled with a violent husband and with two young’uns needing her protection, Maeve bears her life as best she can. After a particularly vicious attack, she is forced to flee back to Ireland – but her presence is greeted with open hostility by the close-knit catholic community that she was once so eager to escape. Driven away to face her abusive husband, Maeve’s future looks bleak. Will she find the strength to break free and make the prospect of a better life a reality rather than a distant dream?

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Copyright © Anne Bennett 2000

First published in 2000 by HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING

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Source ISBN: 9780007547807

Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007547814

Version: 2017-09-08

Dedication (#ulink_fe84baf2-a4da-568e-8cff-c8fb1c72ab16)

I am dedicating this book to Denis

for the immense help and unfailing support

he has given me over the years.

Thank you.

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#ucd588a1b-97f9-556d-b0c9-ab42170e1823)

Copyright (#ulink_ef1d1b08-b882-533a-8e33-590a9a6cf63a)

Dedication (#ulink_9b203404-5bf4-5594-b7f1-1b6451a0542d)

Chapter One (#ulink_9b89567e-2c49-5945-8f32-2a2a5039d177)

Chapter Two (#ulink_5dc4daa6-8a11-5490-9bb1-7534cee92c23)

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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)

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