The Wronged: No parent should ever have to bury their child.... Kimberley Chambers

The Wronged: No parent should ever have to bury their child... - Kimberley  Chambers


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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Copyright © Kimberley Chambers 2015

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Cover photographs © Konstantin Suslov Photography

      Kimberley Chambers 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: 9780007521746

      Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007521753

      Version: 2017-10-23

       Dedication

      In memory of my dear friend Pat’s husband.

      Harry Fletcher

      1946–2014

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Part One

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Part Three

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Part Four

       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

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Chapter Thirty-Seven

       Chapter Thirty-Eight

       Epilogue

       Keep Reading – TAINTED LOVE

       Read the whole Butler Family series in order

       Acknowledgments

       By the same author

       About the Publisher

       PART ONE

      The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

      Charles Buxton

       PROLOGUE

      Christmas Eve 1985

      ‘We drive you from us, whoever you may be, unclean spirits, all satanic powers, all infernal invaders, all wicked legions, assemblies and sects. I demand you leave Queenie and Vivian alone. Allow them to live in peace and happiness. In the name and by virtue of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Amen.’

      ‘Amen,’ Queenie and Vivian said, glancing at one another. Both were thinking the same thing. Father Patrick was pissed.

      ‘May you be snatched away and driven from the Church of our God and from the souls made in the likeness of God, and redeemed by the precious blood of the divine lamb. Most cunning serpent …’

      ‘I think that’s enough now, Father,’ Vivian said, stopping the man in his tracks. She’d never been one for religious jargon and her and Queenie weren’t even Catholic.

      ‘But I haven’t finished the exorcism yet,’ Father Patrick bellowed, spraying both women with his precious holy water.

      ‘Me nerves are jangled, Father. Let’s all have a brandy, eh? You can finish the exorcism after I’ve told you my story. You don’t even know what’s happened to my family yet,’ Queenie said. It had been Fat Beryl’s idea to invite Father Patrick round. She swore by the man’s power to ward off evil spirits, and after the terrible time Queenie’d had of late, she was game to give anything a go.

      Grinning when Vivian handed him a very large glass of brandy, Father Patrick


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