Hide Her Name: The Four Streets Trilogy

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One critic stated that her first novel was 'vacuous'. I would have wished that this second in the trilogy was the same. Rather it took content which she didn't have the skill to use properly. I don't know how I would manage without you, Daisy,' she said, at least once a day. 'The sisters may have said you were simple in the head, but I didn't want you for brains, brawn was what I was looking for and you have plenty of that.' Leave Peggy alone or I'll set her on yer,' joked Paddy. 'She was kept in a cage till she was five. Ye'll be sorry if I do.'

This secret is so dangerous that her mother, Maura, and the redoubtable Kathleen, her best friend Nellie's grandmother, decide the girls must be spirited away quietly to Ireland to await the birth of the baby. Daisy smiled with pleasure. Being told that she was simple was not news to her, sure, she had heard it so often before. But the sisters had also said, 'You can hold your head up with no shame, you were born to a very good family, Daisy Quinn.' She was asked this question on a regular basis and her answer was always the dutiful same: 'Yes, Father.' She had arrived in Liverpool from Dublin to take her position at the Priory whilst still a child. She became an assistant to the fathers' cook, Mrs Malone, and like most young girls she had a head full of dreams and plans. You will have one day and one night off per month,' he told her, within moments of her being summoned to his study.

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When the bell pull rang, Daisy almost fell down the stairs as she ran to open the Priory door for Sister Evangelista. She had been unhappy sleeping in the huge house on her own since the murder. Today she would beg Sister Evangelista to take her to the convent right away. She would be safe there, just as she had been at the orphanage. I am sure she did, but she is bound to be very upset indeed and may be prone to rambling. We must be careful to protect her, as she has no family of her own, except for us. I wonder if a spell in the peace and quiet of the convent might be a good idea?' This had never crossed Sister Evangelista's mind and she was far from happy. Disruption in the convent always upset the nuns' routine and, sure, didn't she have enough to do with a school to run as well? Being a good girl and coming from a good family must have been why she was sent to take up such an important job in England and for one of the fathers too. The house seemed desolate after Dad left, which was just before Christmas. It was a very difficult time. There was a real stigma to me being the child of divorced parents too. I think children from broken homes do suffer in a deep way. Both John and I were changed by the experience.

Neither Father James nor any of his friends had bothered her again, and the nuns began to invite her over to the convent for tea. In fact, Daisy missed Mrs Malone a great deal. She had always told Daisy what she could and could not do, and with no one to guide her, Daisy was lost. Aye, well, I'll see how she is, Father, when I get there, shall I? She will need to prepare the Priory for the father's replacement.' To speak of anything that occurs in this Priory would be the greatest sin for which no forgiveness would ever be forthcoming. Ye will be left to burn alone in the eternal flames of hell and damnation. Do ye understand, girl?'

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That was the bishop speaking. A fat man, distinguishable by his thin, weedy whine, which as it whistled into the air struggled past the blubbery folds of lard gathered under his chin. Then, tragically, my brother John died when he was 26 in a road traffic accident. I also lost a close friend suddenly. All those losses are still with me now. I cry when I think about my brother and my cousin and close friend. Should those losses still affect me so much?