Desolation Island
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: May 5, 1998
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780002221450
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.