Rachel Larkinson grew up in the Lincolnshire Fens, attended Spalding High School and then read Classics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Some years later, she was awarded a BD degree at London University and an MPhil from Sheffield. She has held posts in teaching and community work in different parts of England and lived for four years in Sierra Leone. She and her husband have three grown-up children and two grandchildren, and are now living in rural Hampshire.
Susan lives with her mum and dad, her two younger brothers and her dog Rover in a remote village in the flat fen county of Lincolnshire. The year is 1956 and life is still hard after the Second World War. But the summer holidays are just starting, and Susan is looking forward to spending long, caref...
