![]() ![]() A lesser fantasy and, despite a breathless rescue at the end, very little oomph. Many thanks for checking out our listing, pre loved item so please see photos as may contain wear, marks, inscriptions etc from former owners,
Here at Southcart books we promise fast despatch, 30 day returns & are very trusted sellers, also post overseas, U.K.She does, just in the nick of time, and wins a town award besides, but the resolution is amateurish. Adam's Common by Wiseman, David, 1989 Great Cover Art. This part of the plot is syrupy and labored the only question is how Peggy will cross the time barrier to hear the full story and obtain the deed establishing the Common as forever wild. ![]() Alternate chapters introduce William Trafford, son of that long ago family, and the painful episode that led him to turn inward and give the land to the town: friend Adam was shot as a poacher and William never recovered from the loss. ![]() While sketching there, she notices some movement-a boy? a cat?-and successive visits further the mystery. Peggy has already stumbled upon Trafford Court, an abandoned, burned out house formerly occupied by the family that brought the railway through in the previous century. When plans to bulldoze and develop it emerge, she and her mother rally the locals to block the plan. ![]() Peggy Donovan is a visiting American who finds Traverton an ugly place except for Adam's Common, the town's extensive, still wild green. A slight, unsurprising story featuring the presentday inhabitants of an English industrial town and their predecessors more than one hundred years before. ![]()
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