The Liverpool Basque. Helen Forrester

      HELEN FORRESTER

       The Liverpool Basque

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely 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 HarperCollinsPublishers 1993

      Copyright © Helen Forrester 1993

      The Author asserts the moral right tobe identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780006473343

      Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2012 ISBN 9780007392162 Version: 2016-08-26

       Dedication

       This novel is dedicated to my friend,Doroteo Vicente Elordieta, a Basque from Liverpool,whose wonderful stories about the cityinspired me to write it

       Epigraph

      Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined

      

       Epistle i, line 149

       Moral Essays

       Alexander Pope, 1688–1744

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-one

       Chapter Twenty-two

       Chapter Twenty-three

       Chapter Twenty-four

       Chapter Twenty-five

       Chapter Twenty-six

       Chapter Twenty-seven

       Chapter Twenty-eight

       Chapter Twenty-nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-one