![]() Gossip flows when the collection money from St Michael’s goes missing. He wants to share his find with Duff, but something between them has broken, as Duff has joined the bully gang whose leader is Jack, the Vicar’s son. Who put it there? Who does it belong to? Questions fill his head. While Jimmy is wandering and feeling sorry for himself, he finds a human skull in the hollow of a tree. ![]() There is active spite in the village against the Thomases, and Jimmy can’t discover why. He distances himself from the friendliness the other children have formed with his brother. ![]() Resentful at having to leave his Nan and Dad and all that’s familiar, he just can’t or won’t fit in. Ronnie easily adapts to his new environment in the valley. ![]() Jimmy’s best friend Duff and his sister are both taken in by the Vicar, and Florence, a girl Jimmy thought no one would want because of her dirt and smell, is chosen by the shopkeeper, who has a son of her own. They are taken in by a childless couple, Gwen Thomas and her collier husband, Alun. Jimmy and his little brother Ronnie are amongst a group from the same school that end up in Wales. The Valley of Lost Secrets is a marvellous debut novel by Lesley Parr set in late 1939.Įnglish children are travelling out of London to the safety of the countryside, to be billeted with families for the duration of the war. ![]()
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