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My Friend the Swallow (Hardcover)
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My Friend the Swallow (Hardcover)
Series: My Friends...
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'She was very small with fragile birdlike bones, and although she
had slept in the white shirt and shorts she still looked fresh and
airy, as if she had just flown in from the open sky . . . ' When
Janet Sandison returns to her Caribbean home from a holiday in
Scotland she finds her husband Twice Alexander wonderfully restored
to his old self, full of hope for the future and no longer haunted
by the illness which had shadowed their lives for several years.
Sir Ian has made him Manager of the Paradise sugar mills, with
gawky young Mackie as his assistant; but Janet senses that almost
the main contribution to his recovery is the arrival on the island
of a girl who is keeping house for a team of young social workers,
whom the island has nicknamed the 'Teeth and Feet people'. For
Twice this is the daughter he has never had, but for Janet the
relationship is more complicated. The girl has flown into Janet's
house and Twice's heart but seems somehow always ready to take wing
again, like the swallows of Janet's beloved childhood home,
Reachfar. This is a wise story of ends and beginnings, for the
lives of not only Janet and her husband but of all their friends in
St Jago and in Scotland are moving on, changing and developing in a
way which holds sadness and fortitude, gaiety and love, all woven
together with that mixture of humour, hard sense and understanding
which make Jane Duncan's novels such engrossing reading.
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Imprint: |
Macmillan Bello
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
My Friends... |
Release date: |
August 2015 |
Authors: |
Jane Duncan
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
236 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4472-9802-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4472-9802-0 |
Barcode: |
9781447298021 |
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