Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In n the doll’s house there were no men dolls. There were plenty of girls. There were Mrs. Raleigh the mother and Dora and the twins and Bundle the long-clothes baby and Morello the maid and Mrs. Lewis and Miss Charlotte and there had been Captain Raleigh and Thomas (Thomas Hood Raleigh) Miss Charlotte’s sweetheart. Captain Raleigh had been lost on a picnic and Thomas had gone across the sea to France. No men at all until one day a little sailor boy doll came to live in the doll’s house and things began to be different. Sailors were important to Sian who owned the doll’s house. Her brother Kenneth longed to belong to the Sea School in Penhelig in Wales where they lived to which boys came from all over England and one day from France. Bertrand Lesseps was a French boy sixteen years old who had been sent to his uncle in England to learn English and “lui rabattre le caquet” which means “to take him down a peg”. (“You talk too much” said Bertrand’s father. “But I never talk” said Bertrand puzzled. “Never. Unless I know I’m right.”) His uncle sent him to the Sea School (“I hope he finds it rough” said the eldest cousin. The youngest added “Very rough”) and there Squiff and Big Sam and the other Sea- School boys called him “Stuck-up Frog”. and threw away his hair oil and talcum powder and filled his pillow with sand. This is the story of the unlikely friend- ship between Curly the doll’s house doll and Bertrand the unhappy French boy and of how between then they brought the sailor home from the sea. (LL)