Blogs in March 2021

School for Skylarks 1st March 2021

It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents...

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The House on Hummingbird Island 1st March 2021

‘We’re going to a fine place,’ Idie told Homer to console him, ‘with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.’ Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey...

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