Secrets Lies and Seagull Cries

<p class=ql-align-justify>And the seagull sadly mewled its mournful cry.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>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.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Newhill school's residential trip to Yorkshire is an impossible dream for Nora but a broken leg and code 604 intervene. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>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.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Clovermount is a dramatic setting for criminal gangs ghosts allegations of child abuse kidnapping and an escaped prisoner intent on revenge.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>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.</p><p><br></p>