Looking back on her girlhood, Kitty remembers her mother’s favourite saying and the neighbours who rattled on like parrots about anything and nothing. When a gold watch goes missing, suspicion, hot words and idle talk spread through the little community, drawing in Kitty, her family, a young man named Rupert and a gift from the Earl, until the cost of loose tongues is plain.
A homely Victorian tale with a clear moral, told in a lively first-person voice. Download the free EPUB.