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Barry, Baddock

 
9781857568134: Penny a Look, Tuppence a Feel

Synopsis

Jean, Doreen, Joanie and Molly are sisters who grew up in a Suffolk village between the World Wars. They are the last survivors of 11 children, all born in the same cramped bedroom. These stories are about the people who shaped and coloured the sisters childhood. Crippled Patience Frost, and her uncanny power over swarms of bees and creatures of the wing. Mr Gooch the dairy man and Mr Cage the bread man, rivals in love and ruffians in deed. Miss Sarah and Miss Anne, ladies of discretion, ever fascinated by Life s Rich Tapestry and by Colonel Pugh s new flush commode in particular. The wild gypsies who drank from painted stone flagons and whooped to the magic of their dance. And the Chandler boys, who would chase the sisters around the village lake, chanting: Penny a look, tuppence a feel! Three to go round the hairy wheel! ...

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