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As a teenager Lily isn't usually that impressionable, but under pressure from her peers she and two friends embark on an outrageous adventure to meet Cliff Simpson and his colleagues at the nearby football stadium. Having her innocence stolen following a drunken encounter looks set to spell disaster; leaving Lexington House, a refuge for 'fallen women' with its harsh and often brutal regimes her only option when all family ties are abruptly cut off. Further tragedy emerges from the ill-fated liaison and is now set to haunt her for the rest of her life along with someone in the shadows who has...

Bringing together case studies from Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own contemporary purposes and for forwarding to imagined futures. The reasons behind the creation of place image are also explored, setting them within political and social contexts. In its three main sections - Heritage in the Creation of Senses of Place; Heritage and Conflicting...