Joanna Shepherd did not share her parents' enthusiasm for restoring and moving into the fine old Georgian house on a once lovely but now run-down London square. She would have much preferred staying in the comfortable London suburb where all her friends lived. But Audrey Pitt, whom Joanna met on the first day of school, changed all that, for Audrey loved Turner Square and its old houses and had living in No. 14 until her family moved into a modern housing development. Together, the girls begin to trace the square's history and to find out about the people who lived there, even as far back as the 1780s when the houses were built...London, old and modern, comes alive in this convincing story by an author who loves it and conveys her own enthusiasm to the reader.
Joanna Shepherd did not share her parents' enthusiasm for restoring and moving into the fine old Georgian house on a once lovely but now run-down London square. She would have much preferred staying in the comfortable London suburb where all her friends lived. But Audrey Pitt, whom Joanna met on the first day of school, changed all that, for Audrey loved Turner Square and its old houses and had living in No. 14 until her family moved into a modern housing development. Together, the girls begin to trace the square's history and to find out about the people who lived there, even as far back as the 1780s when the houses were built...London, old and modern, comes alive in this convincing story by an author who loves it and conveys her own enthusiasm to the reader.