Reading Matters

Today I reached for another old favourite off the bookshelf...'Crusoe's Daughter' by Jane Gardam.

Truly Polly Flint is a great heroine, though my favourite is Marigold Green, the eponymous 'Bilgewater',(Bill's Daughter).

Here is the cover picture of the book:

And here is the postcard I keep in it, another yellow house - this time Van Gogh's from the museum in Amsterdam nine summers ago:

Ben and I had had chocolate brownies for breakfast...