The Soldier's Daughter Quotes

“the school is working on a skeleton staff. Almost all the male teachers have joined up.’ Briony’s mind was reeling as she tried to take it all in. It was a shock to discover that she had grandparents and an uncle that she had never known existed – let alone that she might now be expected to go and live with them. She had supposed that her grandparents were dead. ‘But why didn’t you tell me all this before?’ she asked as things began to flash into her mind. The letters that had recently arrived and which her mother had hastily shoved into her pocket to open when she was alone. They must have been from her grandfather.”
― Rosie Goodwin, The Soldier's Daughter