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Glass Lake

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day beautiful mysterious Helen McMahon disappears presumed drowned in the lake and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband her son but above all for her daughter Kit are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.
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    Kit Mc Mahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up & become sweethearts & marry people gossip & grumble & dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day beautiful mysterious Helen Mc Mahon disappears presumed drowned in the lake & then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband her son but above all for her daughter Kit are unimaginable & will leave not one of their lives unchanged.

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    Glass - A solid, typically transparent. Brittle and used in windows. The first patent granted in the UK was for Glass.
    Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.
    Small - something that takes up less space than normal.
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