A Week in Winter: A NovelMacmillan, 06 մյս, 2002 թ. - 352 էջ 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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... 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 , ' Maudie said loudly , as she stepped outside and slammed the door . ' Over , over , over ...
... lying about . But why should anyone take them ? I've asked the boys , of course , and they're all as puzzled as I am . I certainly can't imagine any of them having any use for them . The house is empty , nothing to take 26 MARCIA WILLETT.
... role of wicked stepmother . Pa- tricia and Simon , happily settled in Australia , would receive letters and telephone calls reporting this latest calumny , and Selina's boys - Chris and Paul - would be prevailed CHAPTER FOUR ...
... boys , they didn't give a damn about Moorgate and were too busy with their own lives to take action . For once , how- ever , Posy might be on her mother's side . Rain misted the windscreen , drifting across from the sea in thick ...
... boys had been members of the party and Maudie and Daphne feared ructions . By sheer good for- tune , some of Selina's friends had taken a cottage at Rock and the boys had been loud in their insistence that it was more fun to be on the ...
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