Echoes

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PROLOGUE People seemed to know without being told. They came out of their houses and began to run down the main Street. The murmur became louder, and almost without knowing they were doing it they started to check where their own families were. It was still just a figure, face down in the water. They didn't know for sure whether it was a man or a woman. 'Perhaps it's a sailor from a ship,' they said. But they knew it wasn't anyone who had gone overboard. No nice anonymous death of someone they didn't know. No informing the authorities and saying a few prayers for the deceased unknown sailor. This was someone from Castlebay. They stood in silent groups on the cliff top and watched the first people getting to the water's edge: the boy who had first seen the waves leaving something frightening on the shore; other men too; people from the shops nearby and young men who were quick to run down the path. Then they saw the figures coming down the other path near the doctor's house, kneeling by the body in case, just in case there was something in a black bag that could bring it back to life. By the time Father O'Dwyer arrived with his soutane flapping in the wind the murmur had turnéd into a unified sound. The people of Castlebay were saying a decade of the rosary for the repose of the soul which had left the body that lay face down on their beach. Vissza

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"IT WAS SOMETIMES CALLED THE ECHO CAVE, AND IF YOU SHOUTED YOUR QUESTION LOUD ENOUGH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION YOU GOT AN ANSWER INSTEAD OF AN ECHO. .. Even öt iittcen. Dávid Power fenew the echo would answer eleven yearold Clare O'Brien s dearest wish. to win a coveted school prize. But it was years before Dr. Power's cherished only son saw in the hucfcster's daughtef the answer to his own heart's desire, Here in Castlebay. perched precariously on the seaside cliffs. the lines between them were elearly drawn. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped. propelled by s?holarships to Dublin, fueíed by her own drive and brilliance. tar from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay ancl those in its tliKvll...Angéla O'Hara. beautitul. isolated. a teacher trapped in tHe eohvent school. who risks everything to help Clare cisca'pe -űerry Doyle. the town charmer who tind^jar Clare the woman he vows to have at any pnce^Caroline Nolan the beautitul. rich outsider who comes tf^flli^kr Por Clare. that was before the wild freedom of Dublinéin*! love And Dávid. Igefőre tate drove them both back to Cast lebay. and the past. .. „^ "THE CASTLEBAY MAEVE BINCHY CREATES IS A MARVELOUS PLACE!" -The New York Times Book Reviéw c « hrom the New York Times bestselling author of Circleof Friends, The Glass Laké, and This Year It Will Be Different Vissza