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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - DUNEATHLY, IRELAND
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 - 1930
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 - 1935
Chapter 12 - 1936
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15 - 1941
Chapter 16 - 1942
She got out of bed and sat by the window. Right now, she wasn’t quite sure where she was. Was that a forest across the road lit by the occasional lamp? Cars drove by and she wondered what time it was. What was she doing here? Whose house was this? What had happened to Mollie?
‘My name is Annemarie Kenny,’ she said aloud. ‘I have a sister and three brothers and I come from a village in Ireland called Duneathly. ’ She shivered and felt desperately cold.
After a while, she returned to bed. When next she woke, it was daylight, she was Anne Murray again, and had no memory of the previous night, just a slight pain in her chest that had gone by the time she sat down to breakfast.
The Leaving Of Liverpool
MAUREEN LEE
Orion
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First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Orion Books.
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So fare thee well, my own true love
When I return united we will be.
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me,
But my darling when I think of thee.
Chapter 1
DUNEATHLY, IRELAND
Slowly, carefully, Mollie closed the door of the Doctor’s house so that the catch made a scarcely audible click. She picked up the suitcase and whispered, ‘Come along now, Annemarie, we’re going to see Hazel. ’
‘See Hazel,’ Annemarie said dully. It was neither a question nor a statement, merely an echo of her sister’s words. Annemarie had been in a stupor since the ‘thing’ had happened just over three weeks ago.
Mollie put her finger to her lips, though there was no need: Annemarie was unlikely to speak again. The girls walked across the deserted square, frost skimming the buildings on all four sides like icing on a cake. There wasn’t even a breath of wind on the still, February night. ‘Be careful how you walk, darlin’; the ground’s horribly slippy,’ she warned through her already frozen lips. They were both warmly dressed in thick winter coats, boots and woolly hats. Mollie buried her chin in her knitted scarf and saw her sister had had the sense to do the same.
