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What with finding "Ponies Plot" and an equestrian themed free book this month, I've been thinking about my childhood memories. And the current series of "Call The Midwife" (are you a fan?) is set in 1969, a year I can just about remember.
One of the features of the Choices and Consquences series is that Leonie has very few memories from before she was about five or six years old. As the story progresses, we find out why, and discover some - though not all - of those memories. Some of them are happy memories, such as the return of a favourite soft toy, or a favorite book, others aren't so good. And sometimes it's just that something looks familiar. That's the case in this short extract from Strand of Faith where Leonie meets up with Prospero in the library.
Without thinking I headed over to him. “I like it here,” I told him.
“Me, too,” he agreed. “What have you been reading?”
He reached towards my pile of books, which I’d put on the table. I felt a need to explain and defend them. “I wanted to know more about what’s important here. I’ve read the Bible, but I don’t understand it. Pedro suggested that one would help. And that one’s about the history of here, the Abbey and the House.”
He looked at both books. “They’re good choices,” he agreed. He tapped the first one. “If you want something after this or have any questions, Brother Matthew would be a good person to ask though anyone would help. And if you want a wider background to the history one, I could find you something.”
I murmured some thanks but he’d moved on to my other two books – one was romantic fiction, the other a children’s book.
“And these two?” he asked. “Pedro didn't recommend them?”
I shook my head, amused at the thought as he appeared to be, too. “No, there are so many books I didn't know where to start. I saw Lady Eleanor reading one by that author so I thought I'd try it.”
“Our powerful Seneschal likes romantic fiction, does she?” he asked, with a wide grin.
Had I given away something I shouldn’t? I moved on quickly to my final book. “That one just looked familiar. I thought perhaps I'd seen it as a small child.”
By the way the earliest memories I'm sure of are from when I was about three years old and living in Detroit. They relate to reading books, eating chocolate, and playing with Lego - funnily enough I'm still keen on all those things now! What are some of your earliest memories? And how old were you?
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