Ruby Flynn (39 page)
Authors: Nadine Dorries
1950
S
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IVERPOOL
In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up.
One is motherless – and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother’s place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community.
What can the people of the Four Streets do when a betrayal at the very heart of their world comes to light?
The Four Streets
is available
here
.
This gripping follow on from
The Four Streets
finds the community alive with rumours and gossip after the murder which rocked it to the core.
No one knows – or is saying – who did it, least of all the police, but they are not giving up their search for the truth. Somewhere, in this tight-knit Irish Catholic community, someone must know something. Someone will surely talk one day.
Meanwhile, 14-year-old Kitty Doherty, pregnant with the dead man’s child, is a living danger to everyone who needs to keep the secret. Her mother, Maura and best friend Nellie’s grandmother, the redoutable Kathleen, decide the girls must be spirited away quietly to Ireland to await the birth of the baby.
But it isn’t easy to keep a secret that big.
Hide her Name
is available
here
.
The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with
The Four Streets
and continued in
Hide Her Name
.
On Christmas morning 1963 fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent. Kitty knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger to her family’s Catholic community back in Liverpool’s Four Streets.
When her baby is adopted by a wealthy family in Chicago, Kitty considers the problem solved. But soon it’s obvious the baby is very sick and only his birth mother can save him.
In Liverpool, things have begun to settle down. A charismatic new priest has arrived. The Dohertys are coping with the tragic consequences of Kitty’s pregnancy, and the police seem close to solving the double murder which rocked the Four Streets to the core. But now all that is about to be put as risk once again.
The Ballymara Road
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A Girl Called Eilinora: A Short Story
This is the story which sets in motion the events of the brilliant
Ruby Flynn
.
It is 1846, famine is gripping Ireland and nowhere is it crueller than in Mayo on the west coast. Owen FitzDeane of Ballyford Castle is a good landlord, but even he is powerless to save all his tenants. When he comes upon a half-dead girl beside the road, he insists on taking her back to the castle, to see if they can save her. But Eilinora is no ordinary girl and soon superstition and fear begin to swirl around her, while Lord FitzDeane of Ballyford falls deeper under her spell.
A Girl Called Eilinora
is available
here
.
It is Christmas morning in 1964. For nurse Fionnuala Kennedy, it is work as usual. As she trudges through the cold streets to catch her bus, Fionnuala thinks of the secret which she has been keeping from her beloved mother and father – and of how on earth she is going to break it to them.
She promises herself that she will do it that very evening, when she gets back home. None of the hospital staff are expecting very much to disturb their routine _ it is Christmas Day, after all. And indeed, Fionnuala’s morning at the hospital begins quietly enough, but then all hell breaks loose, and she is faced with an emergency to rock her world to its foundations.
Run to Him
is available
here
.
The Angels of Lonely Lane
Nadine Dorries returns to her roots and draws on her own nursing experience with this warm and engrossing novel about three young student nurses at St Angelus Hospital in Liverpool during the early 1960s.
Dana escaped the back-breaking tedium of life as a farmer’s daughter in Mayo on the west coast of Ireland. But now another trap looms.
Millie has never known what it is like to call somewhere home. As an army brat, she has learnt to survive on her wits. But St Angelus will present her with some problems even she cannot solve.
Pammy is Liverpool born and bred. Of the three, she is the wild one. She will never give up on a friend or a patient, but her daring might be her downfall.
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First published in the UK in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Nadine Dorries, 2015
Author Photo © Cassie Dorries
The moral right of Nadine Dorries to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (HB) 9781784082185
ISBN (XTPB) 9781784082192
