Two Maiden Aunts
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An autumn morning in a country hamlet introduces Betty Wyndham, a thirteen-year-old returning home from school after her brother's death in the West Indies. She and her sister Angel now face a poorer life, while neighbours arrive with mushrooms, eggs and eager concern. Mary H. Debenham's children's novel sets its family troubles among misty commons, cottage gardens and the everyday exchanges of a small rural community.
Their nephew Godfrey brings another kind of energy to Oakfield Cottage. Full of admiration for naval heroes, he turns a frozen pond into an imagined Arctic expedition and needs help when the ice breaks. His insistence on telling his aunts the truth gives the adventure a practical moral edge. Readers will find a domestic story about responsibility, affection and the distance between a child's ideas of bravery and the choices that test them.
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- Author
- Mary H. Debenham
- Pages
- 125
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
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