A Week in Winter: A NovelMacmillan, 06.05.2002 - 352 Seiten Any reader who has ever fallen in love with a house will understand the attraction of Moorgate, a light-and-fresh-air-filled old farmhouse on the edge of the moor in Cornwall. The enchanting house now belongs to seventy-something Maudie Todhunter, the late Lord Todhunter's free-spirited second wife. (The first wife, Hilda, was supposedly a paragon of virtue, and Maudie has always felt second-best.) The light of Maudie's life is her vivacious stepgranddaughter, Posy, who begs Maudie to board a giant English mastiff whom Posy's mean-spirited mother has banned from the house. (The large and ungainly Polonius is an impossibly lovable canine who outshines Lassie by a mile and is destined to become a favorite of readers worldwide.) |
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... children as they'd clambered on the swing beside the tall escallonia hedge and seen smoke rising from the chimney on cold au- tumn evenings . Now , an agent's board bearing green and white lettering leaned at an angle against the low ...
... child's personality flowed out of the thin spiky letters which carried the usual messages of affection , cloaked beneath sharp observations and teasing remarks ; odd and comfort- ing . She refused to allow any concessions to Maudie's ad ...
... children's Christmas party were out of her ken . The men liked her- though some feared her - despite these failings . Those years she'd spent at Bletchley Park during the war and her subse- quent appointment as assistant to a well ...
... children , can't tell the difference between His Excellency and the gardener and he doesn't give a damn . He's clearly enjoying himself enormously . He looks ten years younger and he's making us question all our en- trenched beliefs ...
... children because Selina complained that Maudie was so critical , so unaffectionate that the boys were frightened of her ? What about the pain when she re- alised that Hector was beginning to take Selina's word against her own ? ' Over ...
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