My Friends George and Tom

My Friends George and Tom PDF

Author: Jane Duncan

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1447298136

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Janet Sandison comes home to the small fishing village of Achcraggan in Scotland. Behind her are ten years of happiness with her husband Twice, whose death has brought to an end their life on the island of St Jago in the West Indies. Before her lies a new career as a novelist and a return to the countryside of her childhood-and above all to George and Tom who were her closest friends, mentors and allies, in those early days. But now, Reachfar, the family croft on the hill overlooking Poyntdale Bay, has been sold and George and Tom in their old age are living cheerfully if haphazardly in Jemima Cottage in the village. Janet, George and Tom quickly take up their lives together after nearly forty years apart; Janet buys and converts an old barn on the shore and the three of them set up house. Janet, who has not found it easy to face the loss of her beloved Twice nor to adjust to the strange new world of the professional writer, rediscovers with delight that the old Reachfar values still hold a firm grip on her family and neighbours, but the one thing she cannot face is the ruin of the Reachfar croft itself. Not even the urging of her young nephews and niece- the Hungry Generation-will persuade her to climb the hill. This psychological problem is only a small part of the dramas and happenings, some sad, some joyous, which fill the pages of this enchanting and wonderfully enjoyable book. Readers of any or all of Jane Duncan's 'Friends' novels will rejoice particularly in My Friends George and Tom, for the wise and funny characters of the title have played important supporting parts in many of the earlier books and finally have a book which is triumphantly their own.

My Friend George

My Friend George PDF

Author: Julia A Keirns

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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Meet my friend George. He lives on a large farm in the country.

My Friend, George

My Friend, George PDF

Author: Donald Keefe

Publisher: Baker st Prod Limited

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 9780914867319

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A child explains what fun it is to have a best friend who is a nice orange monster.

My Friend Tom

My Friend Tom PDF

Author: Julia Boughter

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-12

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781495987403

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This is a book about a cat named Tom.

My Friends the Mrs. Millers

My Friends the Mrs. Millers PDF

Author: Jane Duncan

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 144729789X

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'This Paradise community doesn't seem to me to be the secure, feudal, friendly affair that everybody likes to think. There's a change working . . .' As the turbulent island of St. Jago reaches a turning point in its way of life Janet and Twice Alexander are once again deeply involved in the daily life of the community. Many loved Friends reappear and now added to these are the gentle Mrs Miller from Achcraggan, a link with Janet's childhood; the widowed Mrs Miller in the toils of a mixed marriage, and coloured Mrs Miller who becomes Twice's secretary. When a double crisis occurs in her personal fortunes, Janet finds a new maturity.

My Friends the Hungry Generation

My Friends the Hungry Generation PDF

Author: Jane Duncan

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1447298012

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It was a long journey from the West Indies to Scotland - but Janet's holiday turned out to be unforgettable . . . It was a wrench for Janet to leave her husband behind-but Twice's heart condition did not permit him to leave the West Indies. So she set off to Scotland without him, to spend a holiday with her family-her brother Jock, his wife and their three lively children, Liz, Duncan and George. Having to take their mother's place while she is in hospital, Janet finds the Hungry Generation almost too much for her . . . but stories of her childhood at Reachfar prove the first step towards a surprising alliance . . .

My Friend Sashie

My Friend Sashie PDF

Author: Jane Duncan

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1447298071

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'From the rail I looked down at Sashie's upturned face and the brilliant, early tropical sunlight made me think of the lights upon the stage of a theatre long ago . . .' With these thoughts Janet Sandison says goodbye to the West Indian island that has been her home for many years, for her husband Twice has died, the great house where old Madame Dulac held court for so long is to be sold, changes are coming to the island, and Janet herself is setting out on a new and adventurous life. That she is doing so is due in no small measure to her friend Sashie, the ex-RAF pilot who walks on 'tin legs' and whose tender, sensitive friendship has drawn Janet from the dark limbo of desolation into which her husband's death had plunged her. The flamboyant Sashie is a brilliant and subtle character, as readers of Jane Duncan's previous 'Friends' books know; and in this story of Janet's move to a new life he is revealed with all the perception and clear-sightedness that make Jane Duncan so compelling a story-teller.