Robin Writes

I promised you an extract from FOUR LETTER WORDS, and an extract is what you shall get!  Here’s a short snippet of the sequel to SEVEN DIRTY WORDS.  (Remember, you need to read that first!)   This is a first draft, so will probably be edited and re-edited before the sequel is published.

“After tea was finished, I helped clear the pots away, and settled with Mum in the drawing room.  She pulled out the drawers on the old mahogany bureau, and removed several piles of cream and ivory cards and envelopes.  Each one was embossed with gold leaf patterns, scrawling calligraphy announcing the ‘Annual Holmes Manor Christmas Party’, with a charity logo in the bottom corner.  A piece of see-through, white ribbon was wrapped around the card acting like a book mark for the single page.

  Most of them had been completed, with my mother’s beautiful scripted handwriting…