Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

by Jodi Taylor

Studying history opened doors to other worlds and other times and this became my escape and my passion.

Silence holds no fears for me. I never feel the urge to fill it as so many other people do.

‘It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.’

The most reliable method, she always insisted, was to measure people's thighs. As a rough guide, if the thighbone was longer than the shinbone then you were Saxon. If it was the other way round then you were Norman. I

he’d fallen for Kal like a sperm whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.

They shall not grow old, as we

that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.