Cut Him Out in Little Stars
Lucy Strange
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Extract
I have been waiting to fall in love for some time. It finally happens on a blazing hot afternoon in the early summer of 1940.
It is very warm and dark inside the village pub. All the windows and doors have been flung open, and outside, on the village green, a group of RAF boys are sprawled beneath the horse chestnut I used to climb when I was small. The young men are drinking, laughing – their voices jarringly young amidst the sleepiness of Woodhurst: the soft chime of the clock tower; the lazy crooning of wood pigeons.
The landlord of The Pig finishes drying a tankard. He sighs and wipes the sweat from his forehead with a shirt sleeve, then he stoops down the cellar steps to find the bottle of brandy Father has sent me to collect.
About the book
Wartime Kent. Devastated, Juliet returns to her mother’s ancestral home in Dungeness to stay with her sister and recover from the loss of her fiancé, Xander, a dashing Spitfire pilot. However, while sheltering with a group of young airmen during an air raid, she uncovers a truth about Xander that challenges everything she believed she knew about him. To restore her faith in herself and love, she must solve the tragic murder of local girl Minnie Munday, with the spirit of Samphire House and an unlikely hero.
• A new teen direction for bestselling Waterstones Prize-shortlisted middle-grade author Lucy Strange.
• An unforgettable and sweeping WW2 romance with a murder mystery thread, for fans of Laura Wood and Alwyn Hamilton.
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