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      ANNE BENNETT

      THE CHILD ON THE DOORSTEP

       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      Copyright © Anne Bennett 2018

      Cover photographs © Gordon Crabb (Girl); Tony Charnock/ Alamy Stock Photo (houses)

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Anne Bennett asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      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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      Source ISBN: 9780008162337

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780008162344

      Version: 2018-01-05

       Dedication

      In loving memory of Denis Bennett

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       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

      

       Keep Reading …

      

       About the Author

      

       About the Publisher

       ONE

      Angela took her coat from the hook at the back of the door and stepped out into the early morning. The day was a chilly one – it was early yet but Angela was glad the bite of winter seemed to be gone at last, though it was only early March 1926. In the children’s verse March was supposed to begin like a lion and end

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