The Honey Queen

The Honey Queen
Cathy Kelly

Can she find the strength to help the family she never knew she had?Vibrant and warm, Frankie manages people as a career – so her husband’s silence on redundancy comes as a shock. Suddenly both their dream house project in pretty Redstone and their marriage are under terrible strain.Only twenty-seven, Peggy is opening her own knitting shop in town but her past threatens to unravel any prospect of love and a family of her own.Lillie is the friend they both need. Newly arrived in the small Irish town from Australia, she’s no stranger to secrets and heartache. Wrapped in the warmth of the community, Lillie must help herself and her new friends rediscover the joy in life…

The Honey Queen

Cathy Kelly

Copyright (#ulink_dad46a8d-cd13-5a0b-ada8-92e1182cd59a)

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

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Cathy Kelly 2013

Jacket layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Jacket illustration © Nicholas Hely Hutchinson

Jacket lettering © Stephen Raw

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

A catalogue copy of 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.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9780007373673

Ebook Edition © September 2013 ISBN: 9780007510948

Version: 2017-10-28

For my family, John, Murray and Dylan.

For Mum, Lucy, Francis and all my beloved family, and for the dear friends who are always there for me.

Thank you.

Table of Contents

Cover (#u5d14aa57-67c7-5c38-83cc-cd3bab1f858c)

Title Page (#uf6d3e149-6bd2-5c0b-9132-57191a6c07de)

Copyright (#ub08128dd-4af8-5a55-a8d8-dd0b074b1761)

Dedication (#ud243391a-2b7c-511b-975f-d5b9d67574e4)

Part One (#u81526e3f-4e23-59c2-9a94-aea18fb25a5d)

Prologue (#u31142ae6-815b-55af-923d-a44960d154e2)

Chapter One (#u50b887fa-906a-5069-a83c-ff4f8a2f655d)

Chapter Two (#u20c3bc40-666f-57af-94cf-c2809ed92b89)

Chapter Three (#ud2a4871e-bfb8-58f5-ad5c-1c3784628e38)

Chapter Four (#u7ece2881-d1b9-5871-9257-44c53858369d)

Chapter Five (#u0580968c-7416-5f3f-a6ed-bc918fdc4d4a)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)