An Episode of Sparrows

Written by Rumer Godden

Who is stealing dirt from the garden, and why?

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264 pages· 69,727 words· Est. 8 hour read· 810L

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In Mortimer Square, someone is stealing dirt from the garden. Angela blames local boys, but her sister Olivia questions the exclusion of neighborhood children. As they investigate, they uncover unexpected connections to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and a hidden garden. What secrets lie beneath the surface, and what drives Lovejoy Mason and her friends in their quest for rich earth?

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An emergency meeting of the Mortimer Square Garden Committee has been convened to discuss a most alarming matter: Someone has been digging in the garden and making off with buckets of dirt. Miss Angela Chesney is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street is to blame. But Angela’s sister, Olivia, isn’t so sure. Olivia has always wondered why the neighborhood children–the “sparrows” she sometimes watches from the window of her house–are kept out of the private garden. Don’t they have a right to enjoy the place, too? But neither Angela nor Olivia has any idea what sent the neighborhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of good, rich earth. Still less do they imagine where their investigation of the incident will lead them–to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.

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