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their pets settled in their accommodation before leaving, whereas others, like Jill Walsh preferred to just drop them off and leave. 
    “I’ll be back in the country on the twenty-fifth,” Jill told Liz, her tone businesslike. “But I’ll give you a call before I come to collect him.”
    “That’s no problem – one of us will be here anyway,” Liz told her pleasantly. 
    And one of them would be. Since Liz and her husband Eric’s decision to move to his home village of Lakeview and subsequently start the boarding kennels, she’d been tied to the place almost every day what with trying to get the house decorated and getting the kennels set up. She and Eric had been living here almost a year now and, although she was a Dublin girl by birth, Liz was loving it, especially as the move out of the city had given her the freedom (and the space) to set up her precious kennels business in the first place.
    But what Liz was enjoying most about her life now was finally having a family of her own. When growing up, she had always been shunted from family to family, her own parents having died when she was twelve years old. As the youngest in the family, her older married brothers had done what was necessary, and over the years took turns looking after their teenage sister and raising her along with their own children. While she adored each of her brothers, and now as an adult could truly appreciate the sacrifice their respective wives had made in taking her in, all the chopping and changing meant that Liz had always been on the periphery of their families, and had never truly been part of any of them. Nor had their houses ever really been home and, for as long as she could remember, it had always been her dream to have a family and home t hat she could call her own. Now in Lakeview, with Eric baby Toby and their lovely (although still-dilapidated) home, complete with dogs Ben and Jerry, the dream had finally come true.
    The lack of rigid working hours that went hand in hand with the kennels occasionally got to Eric, but knowing how much his animal-mad wife loved what she did, he didn’t complain too much. In truth, he loved having the dogs around too, and although he worked hard during the week at his security officer’s job, which was based in Dublin, he was usually willing and eager to help Liz out at the weekends. 
    But the real reason they’d made the move to Lakeview was for Toby. Here there was so much more room for a young child to explore outdoors and enjoy the fresh air – which would have been almost impossible had they stayed living in the city. In Dublin, Liz and Eric might have taken him to the park the odd time; in Lakeview their long back garden was practically a park in itself. 
    She’d loved Lakeview since she’d first visited the place with Eric towards the beginning of their relationship, and long before they married. The popular tourist village – centred around a broad oxbow lake from which it took its name – was absolutely stunning.  Its bank lined with low-hanging beech and willow trees wound its way around the centre of the village and a small humpback stone bridge joined all sides of the township together. But it was the cobbled streets and ornate lanterns, as well as the beautiful one-hundred-year-old artisan cottages decorated with hanging floral baskets, that really made Liz fall head over heels in love with place. Because of its beauty, the village had long ago been designated heritage status by the Tourist Board, so the chocolate-box look and feel of the place was intentionally well preserved. Having grown up in and around suburban Dublin, Liz had been blown away by the romantic little village and thought that Lakeview would undoubtedly be a fabulous place to bring up a family.     
    And when shortly after Toby was born, she and Eric first set eyes upon their little two-bed pre-war bungalow a short walk from the pretty village – complete with one-acre field behind it – she