‘Who will you live with?’ Katie asked. ‘I suppose Sarah, but she can’t teach you.’

Margaret threw an arm round Katie and drew her head down so that she could whisper. ‘I don’t think Sarah’s going to want to go on tour, I think she’s going to marry Bill Todd.’

Katie pulled away from Margaret, her eyes shining. ‘How lovely! Bill’s one of the nicest men I know. What makes you think they’re going to marry?’

Margaret smiled. ‘Trust me, Katie. I’ve watched, that’s how I know.’

Katie sighed. ‘So off you go with nobody you know. Won’t you be lonely?’

Margaret for a second felt sad. Then she tossed her chin into the air.

‘Not really, as long as I’m on my way. You see, I’ve so far to go.’

Keep Reading …

Have you read Margaret Thursday’s first adventure?

Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. Each year a bag of gold coins is left for her keep, but when the money suddenly stops, Margaret’s guardians are forced to send her away to a terrible orphanage.

Vowing to protect her new friends, Peter and Horatio, Margaret plans their daring escape … but she’ll have to outwit the evil matron at every turn.

About the Author

NOEL STREATFEILD was born on Christmas Eve in 1885. She was the second daughter of the Bishop of Lewes, and she grew up a strong-willed and difficult child (a story she tells in A Vicarage Family). From an early age she was determined to become an actor, and indeed attended the Academy of Dramatic Art, before performing for nine years in the West End and abroad.

It was a sudden decision to become an author, and at first she wrote only for adults. In 1936, however, she wrote Ballet Shoes, her most famous book, and two years later won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for The Circus is Coming. She then planned to write children’s and adult novels alternately, but her success as a children’s author made this impossible.

Although Noel had no children herself, she never failed to supply the kind of book that children wanted to read. She put this down to the fact that she could remember very vividly being a child herself, and that she had a ‘blotting-paper memory’!

Books by Noel Streatfeild

THURSDAY’S CHILD

FAR TO GO

BALLET SHOES FOR ANNA

WHITE BOOTS

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