Nightingale Wood

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The story’s about Henrietta, a girl who used to live in London; sadly, next door’s house caught fire and it spread to her house in London. Because it is written in first person you can live in the pain and shadow of Henry: you cry with her when her mum gets iller and celebrate alongside her as her mother recovers. Gibbons was now the family's principal breadwinner; [15] her youngest brother Lewis was still at school, while the elder, Gerald, was intermittently employed as an actor. The Bell family also paid for the building of the schoolhouse, completed in 1873 with a bell tower, and the ‘Reading Room, which eventually became the Village Hall. But she always has Robert, her dead brothers’ voice in her heart and her Fairy Tales - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Secret Garden and The Jungle Book – to keep her going.

Gibbons published three novels during the war: The Rich House (1941), Ticky (1942) and The Bachelor (1944). There is also a stile leading into the wood from the public footpath on the western side of the wood off the A22. The author makes very good use of tension-building technique, particularly when at the end she makes the main character (Henrietta) become really good friends with the witch that lives near-by Henrietta in the forest.Nightingale enjoys flatter terrain with a better developed network of rides accessible from the car park, although by comparison Overscourt is a younger woodland with only un-stoned rides and pathways that makes access less well suited to all-ability use due to its extreme muddiness in the wetter months. But you’re like, ‘I’ve heard talk from some elders that they’ve seen them out there…’” So Lee travelled to Ireland and Scotland over many summers, finding hundreds of unrecorded singers in Gypsy and Traveller communities. In 1966 she wrote an essay for Punch, "Genesis of a Novel", in which she mused on the detrimental effect of Cold Comfort Farm on her long-term career. It is also home to a profusion of orchids and one of our most stunning spring displays of bluebells. It looked like the author put effort into writing this book and an amazing range of vocabulary was used.

For example, the death of her older brother in a fire; moving to a new house; her younger sister being taken away; her mums’ depression and her dad away with work. This part really hooked me in on page 228 because Henry isn’t focusing on what’s around her – she’s just concentrating on her goal, which is rescuing Mama from Helldon.Since the mid -1980s, South Marston has attracted housing development, and the population now includes industrial workers and commuting professionals. Alfred Owen Williams (1877 – 1930) was a poet, author and a collector of folk song lyrics, who was born and lived most of his life in South Marston. She is my favourite character because she follows her heart and admires the voices of Robert and stays true to herself. In the mid-1800s, Alfred Bell moved into the village and became ‘Lord of the Manor’ and built a victorian gothic- style Manor House. Stop by the woodland for a picnic, choose from three easy access trails for a peaceful outdoor walk or explore the trim trail play equipment, funded by the Great Western Community Forest project.