Carie Tremble leaves here beloved Terrase in Penvaris to go to Penzance and go into service. Despite fitting in with this unfamiliar way of life, she long to go backk to Penvaris. The onset of War rocks the comminty, but is this Carrie's chance to escape bak to Penvaris?
Rosemary Aitken Libros
Rosemary Aitken, escribiendo como Rosemary Rowe, entrelaza hábilmente escenarios históricos con misterios cautivadores. Su serie de detectives, ambientada en la ciudad romana de Glevum, presenta al singular protagonista Libertus, un fabricante de pavimentos cuya experiencia en patrones de mosaico refleja astutamente su habilidad para resolver crímenes desconcertantes. Este enfoque subraya su fascinación por la intersección del arte, la historia y la deducción. Más allá de sus misterios, Aitken también se adentra en la ficción histórica, creando narrativas ambientadas en un pueblo ficticio de Cornualles que ofrecen a los lectores inmersivos viajes al pasado.




Cornish Harvest
- 313 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Lizzie Treloweth is one of ten children. With the outbreak of World War I, their father enlists and the family struggle to run his butcher's shop in Penzance. Lizzie trains as a nurse under Tamsin Beswetherick, daughter of the local gentry, and their friendship with the four Jago brothers develops.
Teaching tenses : ideas for presenting and practising tenses in English
- 196 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
Teaching Tenses is a teacher's resource book with ideas for presenting tenses and verb patterns clearly and in a meaningful context. It is an ideal resource for new teachers who need to build their language awareness and practical guidance in how to teach grammar.Each section of Teaching Tenses consists of a comprehensive analysis of form and function, suggestions for presentation and practice of structures in context and a review of common learner errors.Teaching Tenses also contains a resource bank of photocopiable material for practicing structures in the classroom.
The Girl from Penvarris
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher. Instead she goes into service at the big house with her sister, Fanny. Soon, and against her will, she finds herself growing fond of the shy but kind son of the house, George Trevarnon. But the intervention of George's unscrupulous brother leads to the sisters' dismissal and Katie and George are separated -Katie to struggle for a living in the alien city of Truro, and George, to bury his emotions in the dangers and devastations of the Boer War. When the two meet again, each is married to another but fate contrives to bring them together again -in the deceptive peace of an Edwardian summer...