All Summer Through (by Malcolm Saville)

After finishing my latest re-read of Malcolm Saville’s ‘Lone Pine’ series, I decided to revisit some of his other books in my collection. I have a fairly eclectic mixture and no other complete series, but I recalled liking the ‘Nettleford’ series when I was a child. I have three out of four of those, So I’ve just read the first in the series, ‘All Summer Through’.

I’d entirely forgotten what the book was about, and had no memory of the people in it. But they’re introduced i the first chapter, ...