Lee looked up from his breakfast with a start. For the last two days he’d been on edge every time a sound came from the front door. His mum picked up the letters from the doormat. “I keep finding mud on this carpet,” she called to him. “Did you knock my pot plant off the hall table?” “I fell over...
Their meetings were often at night in the stables or in the hay meadow at dawn where they played, chatted endlessly and watched the soaring skylarks in the clouds. They sent each other coded letters, left in a secret gap behind a plank in the stable. It was Giles who came ...
Neil had to phone the beaters, peg out the drives and work on the tractor. The shoot had to be a success. If they had one more bad season, they would have to close. Others were already trying to buy the land. The sun spilled into the wood and sparkled in the stream. The br...