Secrets, Lies and Seagull Cries

And the seagull sadly mewled its mournful cry.In the final part of the Wath Mills allotments trilogy we meet old and new friends including Nora Noodle whose life is a cheerful struggle against poverty and adversity. She finds a first, tender and gentle love with a quiet Polish boy.Newhill school's residential trip to Yorkshire is an impossible dream for Nora but a broken leg and code 604 intervene. Nora's teacher, Daisy Morgan, is enduring a cold marriage and takes refuge with Phil her mentor, a black American with Sioux ancestry, and a mysterious shadow wife.Clovermount is a dramatic setting for criminal gangs, ghosts, allegations of child abuse, kidnapping, and an escaped prisoner intent on revenge.It is a time of joy, of young love, humour, divorce, and new beginnings. It is a time of hope, a time of death and deep sadness.