Closer than Blood: Friendship Helps You Survive. Julie Shaw

      

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      All names and identities have been changed in this memoir, to protect both the living and the children of those who have died. Some changes have been made to historical facts for the same reason.

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      First published by HarperElement 2014 as My Mam Shirley This edition 2018

      © Julie Shaw and Lynne Barrett-Lee 2014

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      Source ISBN: 9780007542284

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780007542291

      Version: 2018-02-21

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Echoes of My Past

       Note by the Author

       Hudson Family Tree

       Prologue

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       Exclusive sample chapter

       Further titles in this series

       Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

       Write for Us

       About the Publisher

Echoes of My Past

      A wall full of faces smile down on me,

      And my heart begins to swell,

      Past fuses with present so seamlessly,

      Oh the stories these pictures could tell.

      Old black and white memories are dancing,

      Side by side with the colour of youth,

      Hidden heartache temporarily halted,

      By smiles that are clouding the truth.

      Such happy times, such sad times,

      Each inextricably linked to the last,

      With spaces left for the future,

      Amid these echoes of my past.

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