A Week in Winter: A NovelMacmillan, 2002 M05 6 - 352 páginas 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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... once . Tall , with a generous , low - slung bosom and long legs , Maudie remembered with regret the good old days when clothes could be made to measure with- out costing the earth . She had a passion for the texture and colour of fabric ...
... once , fumbling for the word . ' Not like Hilda ... No , not like Hilda who'd loved bright floral prints and fussy foulard frocks with pussycat bows ; not like Hilda who held it an article of faith that a woman should make the best of ...
... Once married to Hector 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 ...
... once . He'd looked over Moor- gate , making notes , cracking jokes , telling her that he'd given up his engineering job in London after promotion had made him more of an administrator than an engineer . ' Boardroom politics aren't my ...
... once , laughingly . ' Come now ! Can it be true ? Hilda wasn't per- fect , after all ? ' It had been mild enough but he'd descended at once into self - criticism and remorse , rehearsing a cata- logue of Hilda's attributes , singing her ...
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