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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... she'd acquired a reputation for tact- lessness , for laughing at quite the wrong moment , for a wor- rying lack of respect for the hierarchy , whilst on the domestic front she was naïve . Dinner parties for twenty diplomats and their ...
... She'd warded off Patrick's protestations and beamed into Selina's sulky face . At the door she'd paused . ' Of course , there's always the possibility that you might die first and then all your wor- ries will be over . So taxing ...
... She'd listened to him , making tea for them both with an old kettle in the huge , bare kitchen , and then they'd gone from room to room whilst he showed her what might be done . His ideas were simple but good and she decided , with one ...
... she'd cry impatiently , ' we're only here for a few weeks . Surely you can survive without them ? Isn't it nice to be on our own for a while ? ' He'd smile repentantly . ' Withdrawal symptoms , ' he'd say . ' Give me a day or two ...
... she'd done what she was good at ; she'd made him laugh , made him feel young , sexy , strong . Responsibility , grief , anxiety would slide away from him and he'd respond in such a way that her own esteem would soar again and she'd feel ...
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