The Lost Sister

The Lost Sister
Laura Elliot

The Lambert sisters have secrets…When 15-year-old Cathy Lambert runs away from her Dublin home, she is scared and pregnant. Settled in New Zealand with her new son Conor she believes the secret she carries will never be revealed…Rebecca Lambert was eighteen when her parents died and she took responsibility for her younger sisters. Years later, she is haunted by fears she hoped she'd conquered.Freed from family duties, mother of three Julie Chambers is determined to recapture the dreams of her youth.Married to a possessive older man, Lauren Moran embarks on a frantic love affair that threatens to destabilise her fragile world.Anxious to make peace with her three sisters, Cathy invites them to her wedding.But as the women journey together through New Zealand towards their reunion, they are forced to confront the past as the secret shared histories of the Lambert sisters are revealed.Fans of Amanda Brooke and Liane Moriarty will be gripped by this emotional story of a family shaken by secrets.

Laura Elliot

The Lost Sister

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers in 2009 as The Prodigal Sister

This ebook edition published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2017

Copyright © June Considine 2009

June Considine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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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.

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Ebook Edition © 2017 ISBN: 9780007336852

Version: 2017-01-13

Dedication (#ulink_fb2e5e44-5121-580f-a693-8a998f5282dc)

In loving memory of my close friend, Dympna Joyce-O’Byrne. Her zest for life and her tremendous courage will always be remembered

Contents

Cover (#ua870a451-ba8a-5343-ac7d-f422ee8216da)

Title Page (#ub7841394-42b6-5afa-9922-fb3a1b456793)

Copyright

Dedication (#u867c467f-065c-59cc-9651-12377a9817cd)

Prologue

Departures

Chapter One

Havenswalk, New Zealand–October 2008

Chapter Two

Rebecca’s Journal–1985 1985

Chapter Three

Dublin-January 2009

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Rebecca’s Journal–1985

Chapter Six

Havenswalk–January 2009

Chapter Seven

Letters to Nirvana

Chapter Eight

Rebecca’s Journal–1986

Chapter Nine

Letters to Nirvana

Chapter Ten

Rebecca’s Journal–1987

Chapter Eleven

Letters to Nirvana

Chapter Twelve