Growing up in the Tower of London under the loving protection of her soldier father, Peggy is proud and content, even if she does have to put up with her mother�s nerves and her whining younger sister, Baby. But when fate moves to rip her away from the security she has known, it is down to her ...
Publisher: Futrua Publications Date of Publication: 1990 Binding: paperback Edition: Condition: Good Description: 0708843751
Now that he’d caught his little light a’ love he had no intention of letting her go and fog gave him the perfect excuse to tease her into the cabin again. Next morning he togged himself up in his best waistcoat, tied a clean kerchief round his neck and gave his beard a trim and a good brushing. T...
Even Nathaniel was beginning to have doubts about his hero. ‘What I can’t understand,’ he said to Mr Leeman, one summer evening, when his particular group of friends and neighbours was gathered about his dining table, ‘is how he was able to predict the dividend his new company would pay, even bef...
If Johnnie could pick up The Times of an evening and understand everything that was written there, then so would she. She’d keep on and on until she could walk into Mr Blake’s cottage with a pie or a pudding and read whatever was lying about. Within a week she’d mastered over fifty words, within ...
She knew instinctively that this was the invasion coming. It had to be. So how could he have gone without saying goodbye? When she might never see him again. ‘Why didn’t you stop him?’ she said angrily as she turned on the tap to wash her dirty hands. The excuse sounded feeble even to Bob’s ears....
It was a blustery morning in March, not long after baby Dickie’s first birthday and she and Betty had gone up to London to help at the national headquarters, as they often did when there were committee meetings there and one or the other of them had been delegated to attend. They’d been the first...
They were still scarred, of course, and more clawed than they should have been. That was something he would have to live with. But they were serviceable. They would hold a knife and fork or a cup. They would even do up the buttons on his tunic and that was a real achievement. &n...