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Chapters (76)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Chapter Twenty-One
  26. Chapter Twenty-Two
  27. Chapter Twenty-Three
  28. Chapter Twenty-Four
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  32. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  33. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  34. Chapter Thirty
  35. Chapter Thirty-One
  36. Chapter Thirty-Two
  37. Chapter Thirty-Three
  38. Chapter Thirty-Four
  39. Chapter Thirty-Five
  40. Chapter Thirty-Six
  41. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  42. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  43. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  44. Chapter Forty
  45. Chapter Forty-One
  46. Chapter Forty-Two
  47. Chapter Forty-Three
  48. Chapter Forty-Four
  49. Chapter Forty-Five
  50. Chapter Forty-Six
  51. Chapter Forty-Seven
  52. Chapter Forty-Eight
  53. Chapter Forty-Nine
  54. Chapter Fifty
  55. Chapter Fifty-One
  56. Chapter Fifty-Two
  57. Chapter Fifty-Three
  58. Chapter Fifty-Four
  59. Chapter Fifty-Five
  60. Chapter Fifty-Six
  61. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  62. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  63. Acknowledgements
  64. Also by Rosie Goodwin
  65. About Rosie Goodwin
  66. Welcome to the world of Rosie Goodwin!
  67. A Letter from Rosie Goodwin
  68. Cissie’s Roast Chicken
  69. An extract from Rosie Goodwin’s next novel
  70. Prologue
  71. Chapter One
  72. Love Rosie Goodwin?
  73. The Days of the Week collection
  74. Mothering Sunday
  75. Tales from Memory Lane
  76. Memory Lane Advert

With a sigh, she made her way back into the kitchen and began to remove some of the cleaning things she had loaded into the cart, deciding that she could clean the kitchen up at least. Next, she refilled the kettle with snow again and, after heating it on the fire, she filled a bucket and attacked the floor with a broom, making dust fly everywhere. She was pleased to find that although filthy there were old quarry tiles on the floor. Many of the cottages thereabouts only had earth floors and after scrubbing them they began to look quite nice. She attacked the windows once that was done and now that all the rubbish was piled at the side of the inglenook ready to be burned the room began to look much better and her spirits began to lift a little.

Charlie looked about in amazement when he returned almost two hours later, and a smile formed at the corners of his mouth. ‘Blimey, sis, someone’s been busy,’ he said approvingly, stamping the snow from his boots.

‘There’s a room upstairs under the eaves and another one through that door there that are quite dry,’ she said, as she took the basket of shopping from him. ‘But that room through there can’t be used ‘til the roof is repaired. But for now, come and sit by the fire and get those wet clothes off. You look frozen through and you’ll be ill next if you don’t do as you’re told.’

Charlie’s teeth were chattering and his hands and feet were blue as Opal searched through the cart for a change of clothes for him. Once she’d found them, he turned his back and quickly scrambled into them, then made for the fire as he glanced anxiously towards the two little ones. ‘So how are they this morning?’

Opal shrugged helplessly. ‘Jack hasn’t even woken up and Susie doesn’t seem well either, but there’s not much we can do apart from try to keep them warm for now.’

‘Hm!’ He sighed and took a good look around the room. ‘Aw well, it looks like we could be here for a while in that case,’ he commented. ‘But it won’t be so bad when I fetch our things from Mrs Kitely’s.’

Opal snorted as she glanced at the storm that was raging outside. ‘And how are you going to do that in this weather? You’d never be able to drag the cart through this.’