The Very Thought Of YouSet against the backdrop of impending World War II, The Very Thought of You follows eight year old Anna Sands, who is evacuated from London to a Yorkshire estate as Hitler prepares to invade Poland. Placed under the care of Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, a childless couple, Anna becomes entangled in their complex relationship. As she observes their unraveling bond, she inadvertently becomes both a witness and participant in their emotional turmoil,

thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows

it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down

an uncouth detective

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a young woman’s impersonation of a duchess

reeking of mothballs

Successive generations would make the firm the country's leading distributor of English-language trade books

witty and wry

Presented as the fictional memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus

the India Today–PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award (1983)

-- George Scialabba

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare