Horace was ten, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in, fed them cocoa, and put them to sleep in his bed. A few days la...
The big event of the Walworth year was to be the wedding of Sammy Adams to Susie Brown. Susie was overjoyed when her soldier brother turned up for the festivities, but he was hiding an illness, and would soon be fighting his feelings when he meets young Annie Ford. When three girls disappear in W...
There was a double wedding planned in Walworth. Sally Brown was marrying Horace Cooper, and her brother, Freddy, was at last getting hitched to his childhood sweetheart, Cassie Ford. But the wedding wasn't the only thing being planned, for Ginger Carstairs and Dusty Miller were working out a bank...
First off, this book was also sold under the title "Appointment in Sarajevo " by Robert Tyler Stevens and "The Longest Winter" by Mary Jane Staples. Ask me how I know :/ Why oh why do authors DO that??? That's the second time IN A WEEK that that has happened to me!Ok, rant over :)I loved this boo...
Matthew Chapman and Jonathan Hardy lay flat on their stomachs in a fold in the ground close to a hedge. The field was their chicken farm, the land with its cottage owned by Matthew and his wife Rosie. The farm was run by them and their partners, Jonathan and his wife Emma. The field was the haven...
He went through his breakfast healthily, making up his mind he was fit for the trip. Mademoiselle Dupont smiled at him from her table, though she looked as if her witnessing of Dr Kandor’s plunge to death had affected her sleep. But she was at least spared the unwanted smiles and importunities of...
She was her usual sprightly self, not a bit put out by all the tricks her young charges had got up to yesterday. Dan apologized for their behaviour. Cassie said he didn’t have to, that she had just the same kind of trouble with Freddy, and that it never got her down. ‘Me dad asked where their mum...
It was just after four o’clock, Monday’s classes were over, and the girls were outside the school gate. ‘I’m not lookin’ for anyone,’ said Trary. West Square’s two schools, adjacent each other, disgorged boys and girls. ‘Not that boy you went home with last week?’ said Jane. ‘Which one was that?’...
He needed to find out if Cumberland had come to the natural conclusion that Lady Caroline and Annabelle had fled in fright to Great Wivenden. If so, his cut-throats might be in the vicinity already. It would be as well to know. The captain decided to investigate after supper. Meantime, he had tak...
‘I’m back, Mum,’ said Daniel. ‘So I see,’ said Susie, eyeing his companion with curiosity. ‘Oh, this is Patsy, Patsy Kirk,’ said Daniel. ‘She’s American, and I found her on my way home from the ironmonger.’ ‘Found her?’ said Susie. ‘In away,’ said Daniel. ‘No way,’ said Patsy. ‘Finding me is as g...
‘Oh, ’ullo, Jack,’ she said, ‘fancy it bein’ you.’ ‘Yes, what a coincidence, Ivy,’ said Dad, ‘seein’ it’s you.’ ‘Yes, I just come out. I must say yer lookin’ real fit an’ manly, considerin’ all them years of yourn away at the war. Yer a credit to yer fam’ly – oh, we ’eard Maud’s cousin Edie’s com...
It featured a Russian floor show. The atmosphere was of old Imperial Russia. The place, noisy and smoky, was cavern-like with its low ceiling, its dark walls and its red lanterns. The waiters, in their loose white shirts, black trousers and hairy moustaches, were as wild-looking as Cossacks. Some...
She was amused and intrigued to receive a letter sent by the Empress Alexandra on behalf of the Imperial family. It contained a most sympathetic reference to her ‘accident’ with best wishes for a speedy return to health, and concluded with felicitations on her engagement to Colonel Kirby. Resting...