The Heart of the Family. Annie Groves

      ANNIE GROVES

       The Heart of the Family

       Copyright

      This novel is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2009

      Copyright © Annie Groves 2009

      Annie Groves asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007265909

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007322695 Version: 2016-12-15

       Dedication

      For my readers who have so kindly and generously supported me. I hope you are all enjoying reading about the Campion family as much as I am enjoying telling their story.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

PART ONE

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

       SEVEN

       EIGHT

       NINE

       TEN

       ELEVEN

       TWELVE

       THIRTEEN

       FOURTEEN

       FIFTEEN

       SIXTEEN

       PART TWO

       SEVENTEEN

       EIGHTEEN

       NINETEEN

       TWENTY

       TWENTY-ONE

       TWENTY-TWO

       TWENTY-THREE

       TWENTY-FOUR

       TWENTY-FIVE

       TWENTY-SIX

       TWENTY-SEVEN

       TWENTY-EIGHT

       TWENTY-NINE

       THIRTY

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

       ONE

      Wednesday 7 May 1941

      It had just gone midnight. Conversation between the occupants of Jean Campion’s comfortable and homely kitchen slowed and stuttered, then died.

      Jean’s