Pastures New. Julia Williams
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Название: Pastures New
Автор: Julia Williams
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9780007278954
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JULIA WILLIAMS
Pastures New
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Julia Williams 2007
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Source ISBN: 9781847563613
Ebook Edition © September 2008 ISBN: 9780007278954 Version: 2018-05-23
For Joseph Henry Moffatt and John Douglas (Roger) Williams, for sharing their wisdom
Contents
Title Page Copyright Dedication Part One: Forever Autumn Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Part Two: Lighten Up Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Part Three: Here Comes The Summer Sun Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Part Four: Fix You Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Acknowledgements About the Author About the Publisher
Forever Autumn
In the allotment: Harvest the crops, dig over the soil, and prepare the ground for winter.
State of the heart: Barren, cold, dead.
‘There’s a fire on the anti-clockwise section of the M25, just before the junction with the M1, and the traffic’s backing up to junction 26, so do avoid that if you can …’
Hopefully that will have cleared by the time I get back, thought Amy, as Sally Traffic made way for a debate about gun crime. She’d always hated driving on the motorway, and never more so than now, when she had to do it alone.
Oh Jamie, I miss you so much …
The thought came unbidden and unprompted, and she blinked back the sudden tears.
This would never do.
Pull yourself together, girl, Amy admonished herself sternly, straightening her slight shoulders and gripping the steering wheel tighter. If she really was going to make this move, she had to be strong. She had to. Hold on to that thought …
At least it was a gloriously sunny day, and the soft undulating Essex countryside was looking its best. Field after field of sun-drenched СКАЧАТЬ