Children of the Dust: Part 3

By LOUISE LAWRENCE

Their voices called to her.

`Hurry up! You haven't time to stop!'

Sarah covered two miles in twenty minutes.

Scattered houses marked the village outskirts, with Monday washing billowing in the gardens. And over the hill the church bell tolled. Sarah's home was in a hollow, two renovated cottages made into one. There were lawns in front and borders bright with flowers and an orchard at the back. She entered through the kitchen. Buster barked and wagged his tail in greeting but she paid him no heed. She went into the living room where her stepmother was nailing a blanket over the window.

`Is it true?' Sarah gasped.

`Don't ask stupid questions!' Veronica snapped.

But the nuclear war was a thousand miles away. Hamburg was in Germany, Sarah said, and this was England.

Publisher: Random House

Price: $16.95

Age group: 12 plus years


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