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Description The Benefits of Passion by Catherine Fox Language: English | Format: EPUB | ISBN-10: 0241136830 | ISBN-13: 978-0241136836 Page count: 290 | Date Published: February 19, 2015 | Publisher: SPCK  Religious & Inspirational Fiction, Christian, Romance, Contemporary CONTENTS 30 Chapters Excerpt: Isabella Deane was downwardly mobile. Her elder sister Hermione, who was not, deplored this tendency. So did their mother. Their father was a solicitor and made no comment either way. Poor Isabella had always been like it, even as a little girl. She had gone quite happily to the local village primary school and made friends with girls like Debbie Ambridge – the sort of girl who used to do handstands against the school wall to show her knickers when the RAF apprentices were going past. Hermione had thrown a tantrum after her first day at Nettledon County Primary and had to be sent instead as a day girl to a little private school in the next town, where they wore a uniform and learnt to play tennis. Isabella and Debbie played in the quarry and on building sites or up on the railway line where Isabella was once almost cut in two by an express train. However, she lived long enough to pass her eleven plus and join Hermione at the grammar school (the only kind of state school Hermione would countenance). Mrs Deane was optimistic about the school’s polite influence; but it soon became apparent that Isabella had waved goodbye to the likes of Debbie Ambridge only to meet up with the Tracy Wattses of this world, who were like Debbie Ambridge only they had brains. The sort of girl who rolled her school skirt over and over at the waist to make it short enough. She and Isabella and their kind went out illegally during the lunch hour to ogle the men, tacking back and forth across the busy high street (where Isabella was once almost crushed by a lorry) in pursuit of the local talent. They ate large slices of Black Forest gateau from the baker’s as they went. Walking the streets and eating! The headmistress was speechless when the matter was brought to her attention. Letters were sent to the relevant parents. Mrs Deane despaired. Mr Deane made no comment. Then there was a turn for the better. Isabella, having lived long enough to reach the sixth form, surprised everyone by getting a place at Cambridge to read English. Mrs Deane was an old Girtonian herself and her spirits rose again. Hermione, now in her first year at the Other Place, was thoughtful when she heard the news. It was as though in some obscure way her younger sister’s success undermined the value of her own Oxford scholarship. On reflection she was pleased. She shared her mother’s belief that Cambridge would reverse the unfortunate downward trend. Sharing Widget |