Title: The Vicarage Children
Author: Lorna Hill
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2008
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Series: The Vicarage Children, number 1
Description
The Vicarage Children is the first title in the Vicarage Children trilogy, the second and third being The Vicarage Children in Skye and More About Mandy.
Set in Northumberland, in the area where Lorna Hill’s husband ministered, the ancient vicarage, near the site of a Roman camp, is a fitting background for the very realistic family and their adventures.
The sympathetic narrator, Mandy, and her toddler brother, Binny, are highly attractive characters, whereas their elder sister, Ally, displays many of the characteristics that so often appear in teenagers today.
The children’s father owns a very beautiful Home Communion set, which features in the story. The original belonged to Lorna Hill’s clergy husband, and is now in the proud possession of Clarissa - GGBP publisher and priest - who has written an introduction about it.
