"OK,"Heather pushed a print-out across the counter. "Here you are. Flight out tenth of February, leaving Gatwick at ten-oh-five, arriving Malaga thirteen fifty-five.
Car hire from Cargest - they're the only ones who'll accept a driver under 25. Couldn't get the same house, of course. In fact, when I spoke to Sofia, she said all the houses in the village had been withdrawn, but then she came back with a new one - owned by an Englishwoman. It's only two streets away from where June stayed. Bigger place, though - two bedrooms. And centrally-heated. She says she's not been to check it out yet, but I can make a provisional booking and she'll confirm when she's been up to see it. Whole thing about six hundred pounds."
Alison winced. It was more than she'd spent on holidays in her whole life.
