P 53 54 Quotes

“Perhaps she got the day wrong,’ I offered, though it sounded pretty feeble.
Mrs. Henderson shook her head. ‘It’s those clocks of hers – very romantic but terribly impractical.’
I didn’t know what Mrs. Henderson meant, but I was starting to realise my days of counting on grown-ups and big sisters were over. I was going to have to take charge myself.
I turned to Cliff. ‘Buck up, let’s grab our things, shall we? If Queenie won’t come to us, we’ll go to her.’
Which was all very well except we didn’t know where the post office was.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse