HELEN FORRESTER
The Liverpool Basque
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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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993
Copyright © Helen Forrester 1993
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This novel is dedicated to my friend,Doroteo Vicente Elordieta, a Basque from Liverpool,whose wonderful stories about the cityinspired me to write it
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined
Epistle i, line 149
Moral Essays
Alexander Pope, 1688–1744
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