To Have and to Hold

by Anne Bennett

  And so I will use that overworked word again, but no less sincere for all that: thanks a million times to each and every one of you.

  About the Author

  TO HAVE AND TO HOLD

  Anne Bennett was born in a back-to-back house in the Horsefair district of Birmingham. The daughter of Roman Catholic, Irish immigrants, she grew up in a tightknit community where she was taught to be proud of her heritage. She considers herself to be an Irish Brummie and feels therefore that she has a foot in both cultures. She has four children and four grandchildren. For many years she taught in schools to the north of Birmingham. An accident put paid to her teaching career and, after moving to North Wales, Anne turned to the other great love of her life and began to write seriously. To Have and To Hold is her tenth novel.

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  Other Books

  By the same author

  A Little Learning

  Love Me Tender

  A Strong Hand to Hold

  Pack Up Your Troubles

  Walking Back to Happiness

  Till the Sun Shines Through

  Danny

  Boy Daughter of Mine

  Mother’s Only Child

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  FIRST EDITION

  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

  Copyright © Anne Bennett 2006

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

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  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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  EPub Edition © AUGUST 2009 ISBN: 978-0-007-34345-4

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