The comfort of others
Langdale, Kay2016
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Minnie has lived in the beautiful but dilapidated old mansion house Rosemount for as long as she can remember. But now she finds herself looking back over the last 70 years to a life that has been shrouded with sorrow, and a painful secret that she has guarded since her teens. Eleven-year-old Max, who lives opposite Minnie on the housing estate built in Rosemount's grounds, has grown up happily with his single mother. But his mum has begun a new relationship and suddenly life is starting to change. As each of them tell their stories, she via a resurrected childhood journal, him via a Dictaphone, they spot each other through their bedroom windows and slowly and hesitantly an unlikely friendship begins to form. A friendship that might just help Max come to terms with the present and enable Minnie, finally, to lay to rest the ghosts of her past.
Main title:
The comfort of others / Kay Langdale.
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Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2016.
Collation:
229 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473618404 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GF
LC class:
PR6112.A545
Local class:
FTAF
Language:
English
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BRN:
1441260