Beyond the Blue Hills Quotes

“Tess was at the top of the tallest plum tree in the orchard, picking furiously. She had a canvas bucket slung across her chest and she was competing with several wasps who thought their right to the fruit was every bit as good as hers. The plums in the orchard, it seemed to the girls, had been hard one day and ripe the next, though of course Tess knew that this was not so. It was just because there had been a late raspberry crop which had kept the girls too busy to think about plums, and when Mr Turnbull had announced that the fruit was ripe and needed picking, it had seemed only yesterday that they had been spraying the trees and cursing windy days because then the spray in the guns was apt to blow back into their faces, coating them with an unpleasant sticky substance and leaving the aphids as healthy as before.”
― Katie Flynn, Beyond the Blue Hills: A World War 2 Family Saga