Homecoming

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Cathy Kelly. Homecoming

Homecoming. Cathy Kelly

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

1 New Year

2 Eggs

3 Bread

4 Vegetables

5 Potatoes

6 Mushrooms

7 Imbolg, festival of light

8 Soup

9 Roasts

10 Feasts

11 Fish

12 Other feasts

13 Spring Equinox

14 Irish Moss

15 Holy Days

16 The Queen of Sheba

17 Food for the Turfcutters

18 The Dairy

19 The Wake

20 Oats

21 Herbs

22 The Homestead

23 Family reunions

24 Weddings

25 Beltane

Epilogue

Excerpt from The House on Willow Street

Prologue

Chapter One

About the Author

By the same author:

About the Publisher

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To my husband, John, and to darling Murray and Dylan, with love

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This evening, Nora thought she might sit by the window overlooking the garden and drink a glass of wine to set her up for Megan’s arrival. Nora didn’t like to rely on anything unnatural for relaxation but it had been a stressful day, and she wasn’t entirely looking forward to her niece’s arrival. Megan thought nobody in Golden Square knew what had happened, as if Ireland were some provincial backwater without newspapers or the internet. Like all young people, she thought the current city she was in was the centre of the universe, and everyone who didn’t live there was to be pitied.

But Nora knew it all. And if she hadn’t, Prudence Maguire from the other side of the square had nearly burst a gut to tell her a few days before.

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