Homing (31 page)
Authors: Elswyth Thane
W
HEN
Evadne arrived at Williamsburg in the autumn of 1938 as Stephen Sprague’s bride, she knew that the lines of cousinship between the Days and the Spragues were linked by marriage, but the long family history was new to her.
She noticed that Stephen’s cousin, Jeff Day, a foreign correspondent in London, looked the image of the portrait of his eighteenth-century grandfather Julian. She discovered, too, that the portrait of
Grandfather
Julian’s wife, Tibby, looked exactly like her own niece, Mab, who, though she had never been to Williamsburg, at thirteen, knew the family chronicle by heart and had always been tremendously curious about the town where her ancestors had lived. It had often seemed to the family in England that in some strange way Mab could
remember
Williamsburg.
This, the seventh novel in Miss Thane’s enormously popular Williamsburg series, is nevertheless set in London during the heroic, nerve-racking years 1938–41.
In
order:
Dawn’s Early Light
Yankee Stranger
Ever After
The Light Heart
Kissing Kin
This Was Tomorrow
Homing
© Elswyth Thane
First published in Great Britain 1958
Reprinted 1968
Reprinted 1973
Reprinted 1981
This edition 2013
ISBN 978–0–7198–1348–1 (epub)
ISBN 978–0–7198–1349–8 (mobi)
ISBN 978–0–7198–1350–4 (pdf)
ISBN 978–0–7091–0253–3 (print)
Robert Hale Ltd.
Clerkenwell House
Clerkenwell Green
London EC1R 0HT
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The right of Elswyth Thane to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her estate in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988