CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY 7 MAY 1948
They travel out through Islington and down to the West End, branching out to the Marylebone Road and onwards. Out along the Great North Road, past rows and rows of bay-fronted houses built just before the Second World War stopped construction. The Morris Ten throbs along, its four-cylinder side-valve engine working efficiently, if not quietly. Elsie is wondering if her mother will be all right if they are to be away for three nights. Brian thinks she has got it made, literally that is, because meals have been prepared and all she has to do is heat them up. And anyway, she arranged for Mrs Jarvis to look in regularly and check on her.
A sudden burst of sunshine breaks through the previously grey day and lightens the fields and hedgerows t
