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Smaller plot points revolve around the background of
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Ella Brady, a young science teacher, falls in love with a handsome, suave businessman (Don
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when he is exposed as a corrupt swindler and runs away out of the country and out of her life – leaving Ella, her family, and many people in Dublin without their savings. Ella is disgraced and quits her teaching job to work more than 60 hours a week at
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access to a laptop he left in her possession. Eventually, her efforts to get funding lead her to meet a new man, Derry King, an
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contact with the restaurant in one way or another, these interweaving with each other and with Ella Brady's life in various unpredictable ways.
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