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Homecoming

Ellie Dean
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  1. Ellie Dean
  2. Contents
  3. About the Author
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Prologue
  6. Part One
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  16. Part Two
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  36. Part Five
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  41. ELLIE DEAN
  42. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Ellie Dean

Homecoming

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About the Author

Ellie Dean lives in a tiny hamlet set deep in the heart of the South Downs in Sussex, which has been her home for many years and where she raised her three children. She is the author of the The Cliffehaven Series.

To find out more visit www.ellie-dean.co.uk

Also available by Ellie Dean

There’ll be Blue Skies

Far From Home

Keep Smiling Through

Where the Heart Lies

Always in My Heart

All My Tomorrows

Some Lucky Day

While We’re Apart

Sealed With a Loving Kiss

Sweet Memories of You

Shelter from the Storm

Until You Come Home

The Waiting Hours

With a Kiss and a Prayer

As the Sun Breaks Through

On a Turning Tide

With Hope and Love

This entire series is dedicated to the men and women who sacrificed so much during wartime to ensure that we could live in a more peaceful world. From the beleaguered housewives battling on the Home Front, to the evacuated children and the men who fought so bravely in the theatres of war, may their dedication to the cause never be forgotten.

The Cliffehaven Family Tree

Dear Reader,

Well, here we are at the end of nine years and eighteen books! When I first began this series, I was thinking it might stretch to six books, so was delighted to be able to expand it beyond my original ideas, and really steep myself in the Reilly family’s comings and goings during the most frightening period in our history.

It’s been a joy to get to know the Reilly family and all of Peggy’s chicks, and now I must say goodbye to them with a heavy heart. They have become my family and I’ve come to love each and every one of them – even Doris and Pauline – and although Cliffehaven and all who live there are purely fictional, I know I shall miss them dreadfully.

Many of you have wanted me to carry on into the fifties and sixties with this Cliffehaven series, but I came to realise it would have been too painful to watch our beloved older characters become frail and pass away. Surely it’s best to remember them as they are in Homecoming – at peace, fulfilled and with the assurance that they will live on for ever in our hearts.

But all is not lost, for there is to be a new series in which we will meet Ron and Dolly in their youthful years, and follow their exploits before, during and after the First World War. There’s a lot of research to cover before the writing starts, but I’m hoping that the first book will be published towards the end of this year.

So, this is not goodbye, but adieu for a little while, and I wish you health and happiness in this new year of 2020, and hope you continue to enjoy reading about the trials and tribulations of the Reillys.