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Authors: Maeve Binchy

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“Oh I don’t know. I’ve had more education, a better job, more freedom, than she did.” Sandy didn’t want anyone to think that there had been no progress. Life hadn’t been a bed of roses in the small Welsh town.

Wilma sighed. Sandy was by far the nicest of the girls who had shared her flat, but she would leave, she would leave soon. Without a proper explanation. And Nelson would say that she left because she was too toffee-nosed for the area, and Old Johny, the man from Barbados two floors down, would say that it was good riddance to that young whitey anyway, and only Wilma would know that it had nothing to do with colours of skin or area, or smells of curry or steel bands in the basement. It had everything to do with life being short and most people wanting to have a laugh and a good time.

BOOKS BY MAEVE BINCHY

Whitethorn Woods

Nights of Rain and Stars

Quentins

Scarlet Feather

Tara Road

The Return Journey

Evening Class

This Year It Will Be Different

Echoes

The Glass Lake

London Transports

The Copper Beech

The Lilac Bus

Circle of Friends

Silver Wedding

Firefly Summer

Light a Penny Candle

LONDON TRANSPORTS

A Delta Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

First published in Great Britain in 1978 and 1980 by Quartet Books and Ward River Press Limited

Dell mass market edition published June 1995

Delta Trade Paperback edition / June 2007

Published by
Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved

Copyright © 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 by Maeve Binchy

“Warren Street” was first published as “The Dressmaker’s Dilemma” in
Woman’s Own
, June 1979; “Victoria” and “Pimlico” were first published in
The Irish Times
, 1979; “Euston” was first published as “Forgiveness” in
The Irish Times
, 1982.

Charing Cross Bridge
(1906) by Andre Derain / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, copyright © SuperStock, Inc. / SuperStock

Delta is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

www.bantamdell.com

eISBN: 978-0-440-33765-2

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