The Summer House Quotes

“at me and shake his head.’ ‘You’ll have to give up work sooner or later.’ ‘I know that.’ When the time came, the responsibility for their keep would devolve entirely on her mother with the help of the small savings she had managed to accumulate, and the prospect of that worried her constantly. Mum was looking tired, almost gaunt. The fat had dropped off her, so there was nothing much left of the plump, cheerful woman she had once been. She said it was the war, but Laura suspected it was more than that. She had tried several times to persuade her to see a doctor, but she had refused. ‘I’m not going to the doctor just because”
― Mary Nichols, The Summer House: The moving and heartwarming family story