Children of the Dust: Part 5

By Louise Lawrence

Sarah bit her lip.

Her father was teaching at Bristol University and would not have time to drive home. And Veronica did not mean to be unkind. She was doing everything she could to keep herself and the children alive and she did not have time to think of Sarah's father.

`Gather all necessary belongings into one room,' instructed the radio announcer. Seal the doors against nuclear fall-out.'

The door to the kitchen still remained open but Veronica sealed the door to the hall with sticky tape. There was nothing left for Sarah to do. In the gloomy light she saw tinned food piled in a corner, bowls and buckets filled with water, the camping stove and gas cylinder brought in from the garage, half a sack of potatoes and Grandma's commode. The settee was piled with clothes and bedclothes, pillows and cushions, books and cups and saucepans, polythene garbage bags, Catherine's Barbie doll and Williams's Tonka truck.


Publisher: Random House

Price: $16.95

Age group: 12 plus years


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