scared of the future, . . ' The fear of a young girl leads her grandmother to tell a bedtime story a story now held in the frail depths of her memory.
But she can still see Peggy Smith, a girl saddened
by much and touched by everything, mirrored in the blue pupils of her granddaughter's eyes.
So we must go back to that day, to London in the summer of, remembered now as a day of many encounters.
Peggy's widowed father was there Mr Luck too, the bigbellied bookshop owner of A Spine Full of Words as well as the notorious Scratchwood Bullies and of course the thing she found, something that no one had ever told her about before.
But it was to be Peggy's encounter with death, along with her own fear of the future, which left her with nothing but life.
This is, after all, her path to Wonder, . . MATTHEW SMALL is a fiction and non fiction writer, In, he was awarded first place in the Countryside Tales annual short story competition for his story, Lake View, In, Small was shortlisted for the Luke Bitmead Bursary in association with Legend Press, His non fiction books, The Wall Between Us and Down and Out Today, are published by Paperbooks, MATTHEW SMALL is a fiction and non fiction writer, In, he was awarded first place in the Countryside Tales annual short story competition for his story, 'Lake View, ' In, Small was shortlisted for the Luke Bitmead Bursary in association with Legend Press, His non fiction books, 'The Wall Between Us' and 'Down and Out Today,' are published by Paperbooks, sitelink.
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