Giles Quotes

“It’s a craving that I indulge in. Can’t possibly be good for me, but nothing I like is.”

“I think this is some of my best work.”

“So what if he’s alone. We’re all alone.”

“Half term with the family gives opportunity for the elder Marlows to laugh at the twins’ failures. Nicola takes advice from her eldest brother, Giles (a lieutenant in the Navy), that she should concentrate on what she is good at - being bad!”

“When she gets there, she realizes that she has not enough money for the return ticket and that she has no idea where to find Giles. Eventually she tracks him down and, although he is singularly unimpressed with her, he does at least put her on the train back to school.”

“Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice’s brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer. Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter.”

“The chief characters are twins, a boy and girl of eleven, christened Giles and Gillian Alvington but called Jack and Gill. ”