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 \nMy best friends who never leave my side.  \nGordon Wise at Curtis Brown,for talking meseriously.  \nMaddie West at Little,Brown,who asked for asecond novel!!  \nAnd finally,Rebecca Cripps,who has been beenwith me every step of the way and without whom youwouldn’t be reading this book.  \nThank you one and all xx  \nPrologue  \nSaturday 18 April 2015,Chester-le-Street,County Durham  \nAs she wiped her feet on the welcome mat outside herfront door,Kathryn Casey had no sense of the dangerthat lurked inside her house.Instead she savoured thefeeling of coming home,as she always did,no matterwhere she’d been or for how long.This was her haven,her place of peace and safety-even when it was full ofgrumpy teenagers.  \nThere was nothing grand about living in a modernred brick semi on a residential developmentjust outsidetown.You couldn’t swing a cat in the upstairs rooms,at least two of the taps were leaky and the paintworkneeded redoing.But even after all the years she'd lived  \n1  \nhere,it still felt like a palace to Kathryn.Comparedto the cramped,boxy flat she'd grown up in,it was abloody mansion.  \nBrett was always saying that a home was more thanbricks and mortar.It was part of his sales patter,butit was true.In this house on Totteridge Avenue,theirfamily had blossomed,the kids had grown up and shehad matured along with them.In some ways it hadshaped them.Maybe its layout had even infuencedthe ties between the children-the boys in their side-by-side bedrooms and Flora slightly cut off.In turnthey had changed its structure to suit their needs,byextending the kitchen and adding a sun lounge off theliving room.  \nWould they be the same family in a different house?she wondered.Would there still be a room known as'Flora's rabbit hole'?There was no way of telling.All sheknew was that,after twelve years of Christmases,birth-day parties and gatherings -after nearly a decade and ahalf of stories and dramas -who they were and wherethey lived seemed inextricably entwined,like a knot thatcould never be untied.  \nIt only felt like yesterday that they had moved in.She would never forget the looks on the bairns'facesas they burst gleefully out of the back door into thegarden.There had only been a small patio at theirprevious address,a house that Kathryn had never been  \nfully able to consider her home.But when they movedto Totteridge Avenue,all of a sudden they had a lawn.They had trees and borders.They had space.  \n'Can we have a trampoline,too?'George hadpleaded.","cbCaihRTqWRALeGX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihRTqWRALeGX","pdf",9850477,384,"English","# Prologue\n## Saturday 18 April 2015, Chester-le-Street, County Durham","[{\"question\":\"What is the central theme of The Mother’s Bond?\",\"answer\":\"The story focuses on love, adoption, rediscovery, and how the past can shape one’s future and family relationships.\"},{\"question\":\"Who narrates the Prologue and what is happening at the start?\",\"answer\":\"Kathryn Casey is in the opening scene as she returns home, unaware of the danger inside her house.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect adoption and family dynamics?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes how adoption decisions and birth-family knowledge (or the lack of it) influence a family’s emotional bonds and the way relationships evolve over time.\"}]","The Mother’s Bond - Prologue | PDF",591]