Kindertransport (2011)
“Two gloriously carefree months lay ahead—months of walks in the woods; of swimming in the nearby lake; of trying to play tennis on carefully kept grass courts, though I never got any good at it. I learned to play croquet, where you had to hit colorful wooden balls with wooden mallets and make them go through wire hoops called wickets that were stuck into the lawn. I read books in English while lying in daisy-strewn meadows as the sun played hide-and-seek behind the trees. I climbed those trees,... to look down into the garden and the great house at the end of the path. Day by day my English improved, without my noticing it. My skinny legs got fatter from eating fresh strawberries in thick country cream and homebaked pies filled with fruit from my hosts’ own orchard, fruit which I had helped pick. Prissy’s parents treated me royally. Prissy also had an older brother.
Jack was seventeen. I hoped he wouldn’t care that I was only eleven, but of course he took no notice of me at all. Oh, but he was handsome!MoreLess
Jack was seventeen. I hoped he wouldn’t care that I was only eleven, but of course he took no notice of me at all. Oh, but he was handsome!MoreLess
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