A toddler looks under his bed, in his toy box, behind a chair, and in a laundry basket for his present, until he finally finds it under the Christmas tree
English graded reader series for secondary level to adult
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry’s life miserable. ‘Poor Henry!’ say his friends. ‘What an awful life he has!’ But Henry is not the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another . . . Mary Wesley’s story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage – and the things people will do to get what they want.
Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps found the answer to his own happiness...
