Seven year old Cora Kelly is very ill in hospital . All she wants is a visit from her Mother . She is so excited when the nurses tell her she is well enough for a visit. Mother duly arrives and gives her a gingerbread man . Cora keeps the sweet treat and does not eat it , even when she is sent to the Norfolk countryside to recuperate .
Then tragedy strikes and Cora keeps the gingerbread man as a talisman , knowing that she will never see her Mother again .
With her new guardian Eliza who was her Mother's best friend Cora moves back to London . Here she continues to grow up , but the Second World War is looming on the horizon and life is becoming more unsettling for everyone . What will the future hold ?
A thoroughly enjoyable book !
Then tragedy strikes and Cora keeps the gingerbread man as a talisman , knowing that she will never see her Mother again .
With her new guardian Eliza who was her Mother's best friend Cora moves back to London . Here she continues to grow up , but the Second World War is looming on the horizon and life is becoming more unsettling for everyone . What will the future hold ?
A thoroughly enjoyable book !