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Автор Salley Vickers
Mr Golightly’s Holiday
Salley Vickers
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First published in Great Britain in 2003
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For my own father, who, valiant in the face
of adversity, taught me the charm of the comic
perspective – with all love.
Take hold tightly, let go lightly; this is one of the great secrets of felicity in love…
ROBERT ORAGE
Table of Contents
ONE AFTERNOON IN MID MARCH, WHEN THE green-white snowdrops had blown ragged under the tangled hawthorn hedges, the pale constellations of primroses had ceased to be a novelty, and the more robust, sun-reflecting daffodils were in their heyday, an old half-timbered Traveller van drove into the village of Great Calne.
There was, in fact, no other Calne, great or small, in the county of Devon; or if there ever had been, it had long since vanished into the indifferent encroachments of the moor. Great Calne stands at the edge of Dartmoor, one of the ancient tracts of land which still, in the twenty-first century, lends out its grazing free to the common people of England – though it must be said that the ‘common people’ are something of a scarcity these days.
