Catherine Cookson
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The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door, but then the entire office staff was disrupted by Mr Armstrong's reaction when he learned his visitor's name. Clearly Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence...