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The slums of Dublin are a lonely place for Katherine Donovan. Her father is one of the most hated men in the district, notorious for his viciousness. Her one friend is eight-year-old Ceppi, as much an emotional orphan as eighteen-year-old Katherine. When her father is murdered in the unrest surrounding the docker's strike, Katherine, fearing for her life, flees to Liverpool with her father's money, taking Ceppi with her. She finds a refuge for herself and Ceppi with the Moore family, until the eldest Moore boy's unnatural interest in Ceppi convinces Katherine that they must move on. Using the last of her money to rent a ramshackle lodging house, she discovers to her horror that one of her tenants is not the respectable salesman he claims to be. She is harbouring an murderer, abortionist and disgraced doctor, a man who is threatening her safety and that of the little girl she promised to protect...
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Katherine is a lonely outcast in the Dublin slums during the late 1900s for her pawnbroker father is the most hated man in the district. After he is murdered in the unrest surrounding the dockers' strike, she flees to Liverpool with her father's money and her only friend, eight-year-old Ceppi. Using the money she rents a lodging house but discovers that one of her tenants is a murderer who threatens her safety and that of the little girl she promised to protect.
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Lyn Andrews's last paperback,TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS, shot to number 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list, second only to Catherine Cookson, making her the UK's topselling living writer at the time of publication
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- PublisherMagna Large Print Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0750519320
- ISBN 13 9780750519328
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages464
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