Book description
On a blazing hot day in late August 1914, 12 year old Mattie dances
in the stream, spraying her little sister Evie with silvery showers of
water. They have come here to cool off and to pick watercress for tea.
They are unaware that their idyllic childhood in Suffolk is almost at
an end, for as their mother says, 'all the world's gone mad.'
The
girls will grow up to lead very different lives. Mattie is destined to
travel far from home and to found a dynasty of strong-minded women
like herself. Evie, in the role of family carer, still achieves a
satisfying career.
But will the two sisters be reunited and a
secret solved?
Sheila Newberry has nine children and 22 lively grandchildren. Her
family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published
most of her adult life. She now lives in Suffolk with her husband.
