Dido and Pa
Publisher: RED FOX BOOKS (RAND)
Published: April 2, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780099456667
First sentence: Dusk was closing in over the South Downs on a fine, bitterly cold, windless evening in late November, a hundred years ago, when the driver of a carriage and pair left his horses tied to a gate on the main Chichester-to-London road, vaulted over the gate, crossed a wide, sloping pasture, walked up a chalk track where the wheel ruts showed white in the hazy twilight, and passed through a grove of beech trees.