Desolation Island
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Day Books
Published: 1981
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780812870664
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.