Where the Sea Lavender Grows Quotes

“A biting wind was blowing across the farmyard from the sea”
― Kitty Johnson, Where the Sea Lavender Grows

“we’re all at sixes and sevens.”
― Kitty Johnson, Where the Sea Lavender Grows

“very top was a photograph of a smiling woman holding a little dog close to her face so that they were cheek to cheek. “There’s Lilias, with her fool of a dog Compass. He was always running off, that dog. Went missing for over a year after Harry vanished, then turned up again out of the blue. Thin as anything, he was. Weak too. Didn’t think he’d pull through for a while.” “Did you ever find out what happened to him?” Ruth shook her head. “No. I always thought he must have jumped into some trade person’s vehicle and ended up miles from home; something like that. And of course we couldn’t tell Lilias he was back, because I suppose by then she was in France. Symonds and his wife took care of him for a while, and then the poor dog had to put up with me looking after him after I was discharged from the Wrens. Mind you, we rubbed along together pretty well most of the time. Both missed Lilias, I suppose. Until I packed up Marsh House and took him with me when I moved to London, he’d often sit outside staring down the garden path as if he was waiting for Lilias to come home, poor boy.” “Was he happy in London?” “He was, actually, very much to my surprise. I suppose it was a new start for both of us. I could never find it in my heart to sell Marsh House, though—too many memories. I returned to live there after I retired. But please, do keep looking through the photographs.”
― Kitty Johnson, Where the Sea Lavender Grows