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Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

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By Maeve Binchy

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is shipped to stick with the boisterous O’Connors in Kilgarret, eire. it's the starting of an unshakeable bond among Elizabeth and Aisling O’Connor, a friendship that would suffer via twenty turbulent years of switch and chaos, pleasure and sorrow, hovering desires and searing betrayals.

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41 Eileen opened her arms out wide. 'Come here to me and tell me all about the terrible journey,' she said. Close up, Elizabeth's eyes were even more enormous than ever. ' Eileen tightened her grip on the bony little frame. ' Elizabeth started to cry. 'No, it's terrible. The back of my coat is wet and it's gone on my shoes. I'm so ashamed, Mrs O'Connor. 1 didn't . . 1 didn't know . . 1 couldn't. . ' Her shoulders heaved. 'Listen to me, child, this is a house where people are always wetting their knickers, come on upstairs with me, there there.

He might lose his strained look and even Sean Senior might mellow a bit in the light of birthday candles. She began to make a list, then felt a pang of guilt about the birthday parties in England where no child would have cakes or cream - but it passed. And perhaps he would bring over a few of his friends from school; that young Murray boy, or one of the Healys, or whoever it was he was friendly with these days. Funny that she didn't know. There was a time when he used to have the house full of his friends.

She didn't even think she would worry Father Kenny by telling him about it in confession. It wasn't a sin or anything, it was just something women did to get their bodies back to normal when they were a bit overstrained. * 57 Maureen had seen pictures of nurses bending low over fevered brows and holding the hands of brave young men while reading temperatures and noting pulses and being generally indispensable. She had started writing to Dublin hospitals for details of training. She thought that there would be more brave young men languishing in Dublin than there were likely to be in the local county hospital which they visited whenever Grannie was taken in, which was every winter.

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