Sent home from Ceylon at nine, small Hugh Seymour spends his holidays as an unwanted paying guest in other people’s houses. From that prologue grow linked portraits of children, among them Angelina, Bim Rochester, Nancy Ross and Barbara Flint, each of whom, in moments their elders never notice, keeps company with a strange golden figure of comfort.
A delicate 1915 book about childhood written for grown-ups, for readers of Kenneth Grahame’s The Golden Age. Download the free EPUB.