Desolation Island
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: May 6, 1997
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780006499244
First sentence: The breakfast-parlour was the most cheerful room in Ashgrove Cottage, and although the builders had ruined the garden with heaps of sand and unslaked lime and bricks, and although the damp walls of the new wing in which this parlour stood still smelt of plaster, the sun poured in, blazing on the covered silver dishes and lighting the face of Sophie Aubrey as she sat there waiting for her husband.